Peshawar: A seven-day workshop is underway for framing ten-year development plan for the merged tribal districts, a news source reported. The representatives of local government, housing, transport, tourism, sports, and Public Health engineering (PHE) are attending the workshop.
The workshop is for the extensive consultation on the spending plan of PKR 1.23 trillion funds for the merged tribal areas. Consultations include forming plans and strategies, and identification of any obstacles for the development.
The details so far reveal that 30% of the funds will be assigned for the development of local governments.
Over the next three years, the funds will be used for
Constructing 702 village/neighbourhood councils
1000-km link roads between farms and markets
500 solar powered drinking water supply schemes (DWSS)
100 gravity based DWSS, solarisation of existing 200 DWSS
Sanitation
Construction of drains
Solid waste management schemes
Capacity development of elected local representatives
Within the Public Health Sector, ongoing projects to be completed by 2021 include:
89 schemes identified in Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2018-19
Sanitation system programmes in all tribal district headquarters
Rehabilitation and solarisation of 220 DWSS under USAID grant
Six water and sanitation schemes in North Waziristan with UNICEF’s support
Reportedly, PHE’s future plans include rehabilitation, solarisation, improvement, and augmentation of existing 518 DWSS, 391 pumping and gravity DWSS for unserved areas, 10 new sanitation programmes, master plan for provision of DWSS & Sanitation facilities, and capacity building of PHE Department merged areas.
