Pervez Khattak calls for utilisation of unutilised state land to generate income

PESHAWAR, May 30: The Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has directed heads of all provincial departments for chalking out efficient planning for the use of the unutilized land owned by their departments to increase revenue of the province to make the departments self generating and self sufficient.
This he said while presiding over a high level meeting convened to deliberate over raising of provincial revenue here at Chief Minister House on Monday.
The CM directed heads of the departments for early identification and proper utilization of the state owned land for commercial purpose to increase provincial revenues. He also ordered hiring of consultants and constitution of management committees in each department for this purpose. He directed to give final touches to the process till June in this regard. The CM also appointed Secretary Relief, Ahmad Hanif Orakzai as incharge to monitor the projects to be chalked out for utilization of the state assets for revenue generating purpose.
The CM directed to keep all the process transparent and according to rules. He also directed for initiating the necessary legislation to make the project workable. The Chief Minister also ordered auction of obsolete machinery stored in the mechanical workshop of Irrigation Department. Moreover he asked concerned authority for planning construction of multi-storey building on the sites of the workshop. Similarly, he asked to complete small project in one year and big project in a period of 15 months.
Targets for Revenue generation for various departments were also fixed in the meeting. The Department of Communications and works was asked to generate Rs. 2 billion while for Agriculture department Rs. 1 billion, Environment department 600 million, Industry Department Rs 2 billion, Mine and Mineral Department Rs. 2.2 billion, Local Government Department Rs. 2 billion, Irrigation Department Rs. 1 billion, Peshawar Development Authority Rs. 6 billion, Excise Department Rs. 14 billion and Auqaf Department Rs 500 million was determined to generate.-PR