Peshawar - Provincial Task Force on merged districts met here on Thursday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair and reviewed implementation status of decisions taken in the last meeting regarding development projects and public issues in the newly-merged districts North Waziristan and Kurram.
Besides, provincial cabinet members Shuakat Yousafzai, Shahram Tarakai, Iqbal Wazir, Kamran Bangash, Corp Commander Peshawar Lt Gen Nauman Mahmood, Additional Chief Secretary, Senior Member Board of Revenue Zafar Ali Shah, Inspector General Police Muazzam Jah Ansari, concerned administrative secretaries and other civil and military high ups attended the meeting.
Briefing the forum about the decisions taken in the last meeting and their implementation status, it was informed that 27 important decisions were taken regarding North Waziristan while 24 were made regarding Kurram district. Out of 27 decisions regarding North Waziristan district, 19 had been fully implemented while the remaining 18 decisions were being implemented as per the timelines.
Regarding Kurram, it was informed that out of 24 decisions, 11 decisions were fully implemented while progress was being made on the rest of the decisions in accordance with the timelines. The forum was informed that for the facilitation of the people of North Waziristan district, NADRA offices were setup in Miran Shah and Razmak and passport office was also established and made fully operationalise in the district.
NADRA Citizen Facilitation Centres were also established on different spots while female staff had been posted to three of them.
Besides, pending SNEs of health and education departments for North Waziristan were also approved. It was further informed that, under the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami project 1.8 million saplings were planted during monsoon campaign.
Touching upon the extension of provincial departments to newly-merged districts, it was told that the offices of Excise and Taxation, Mines and Mineral, Rescue 1122, Social Welfare, Population Welfare and Food departments were also setup in North Waziristan district. Moreover, Spin Wam and Shewa hospitals were also made operational.
The forum was informed that a project regarding dualisation of Bannu-Miran Shah Road was reflected in Accelerated Implementation Programme while the PC-II of the project had also been approved. Regarding education sector, it was told that recruitment process of 379 teachers in North Waziristan would be completed by next month.
The meeting was informed that Rs2.26 billion were released for the strengthening of police in NMDs. Briefing about Kurram district, it was told that PC-II had been approved for the establishment of category-D hospitals in Makhranay, Mandan and Kharlachi adding that feasibility study was also underway for the establishment of medical college and upgradation of District Headquarters Hospital Kurram.
A project for the widening and rehabilitation of Thal-Parachinar Road had been reflected in Annual Development Programme (ADP). Regarding education sector, it was informed that recruitment process of 456 teachers would be completed before the beginning of next academic year while 56 lecturers were recruited for the colleges in Kurram.