Presides over mid-term review meeting of ADP 2015-16
PESHAWAR, March 21: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has asked planners for devising a long term comprehensive and efficient plan for protection of the whole province from the devastation of floods on permanent basis to be implemented with the help of federal government.
This he said while presiding over mid-term review meeting of ADP 2015-16 here at Civil Secretariat on Monday. Minister for Finance Muzafar Syed Advocate, Minister for Local Government Inayatullah and Special Assistant for C&W Akbar Ayub, Chief Secretary Amjad Ali Khan, Additional Chief Secretary Azam Khan and various administrative secretaries attended the meeting.
The meeting reviewed implementation status of projects. The meeting besides reviewing pace of work of the uplift schemes also discussed impediments in implementations of the schemes while a number of decisions were made to speed up work on the developmental projects.
The Chief Minister directed for chalking out of a phased wised plan for protection of the province from the damages of flood in future in the light of the survey conducted about the losses caused by 2010 floods. He informed that the proposed plan to be made for the saving of the province from the damages of flood would be carried out with the financial assistance of the federal government. The Chief Minister strictly banned making changes in the sites and revision of uplift scheme. He asked heads of the departments to specify properly sites for the developmental schemes right before its approval. He further directed high ups of various departments to consult C&W department to chalk out realistic and implementable uplift schemes.
The Chief Minister while directing to complete the ongoing projects of roads in the province ordered planners not to include any new road projects in the next budget. He ordered heads of the departments to ensure pre qualification of firms to avoid any sort of delay in implementation of schemes. The Chief Minister directed to make amendments in KPPPRA rules to avoid certain complications faced in procurement procedure of up lift projects in the province.-PR
