Senate Body For Early Release Of Funds To Ensure Tribal Areas' Development
Umer Jamshaid Published January 17, 2023 | 12:50 AM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Jan, 2023 ) :The Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) was told on Monday that release of the remaining funds committed by the Federal Government for the development of merged tribal areas was imperative to ensure the completion of ongoing projects.
Director General of the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) KP, Sohail Khan informed the committee that the Federal Government made a commitment of Rs1 trillion for the development of the erstwhile FATA in 10 years with Rs100 billion per annum.
The body, which met here with Hilal ur Rehman in the chair, took the stock of non-implementation of commitments made by the Federal Government under the 25th Constitutional Amendment for mainstreaming of merged districts, erstwhile FATA.
"If Federal Government releases all the promised funds, it will help only in the completion of ongoing projects," the DG SDU remarked.
The committee was also briefed about the Geo tagging of ongoing projects which was recommended by the committee in its previous meeting.
Senator Hilal ur Rehman appreciated the KP government for the initiative and formed a sub-Committee to expedite the progress on these projects.
While discussing the utilisation of funds allocated to KP Irrigation Department, for Tribal District Mohmand and Bajaur in the last three years, Senator Hilal ur Rehman remarked that according to documents provided by the irrigation department in the last meeting, a total of Rs 860 million had been utilised and twelve schemes had been completed, but as of current details which were submitted by the same department showed that only six schemes had been completed so far.
The Chair directed the irrigation department to submit all the details relating to projects supervised by the irrigation department in the next meeting.
The meeting was attended by Senators Dost Muhammad Khan, Gurdeep Singh, Sania Nishtar, Shamim Afridi and Haji Hidayat Ullah Khan. Secretary SAFRON Pervaiz Ahmed Junejo and officials of other departments concerned were also in attendance.
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