By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has said that the government’s development strategy is badly hindered by the shortage of required funds caused by the loot and plunder of the rulers of the past who only knew how to fill their own pockets for which they were going behind the bar one by one.
Addressing a public meeting in Reshun village in Upper Chitral district here on Friday, he said that it was his strong desire to bring Chitral at par with the developed districts of the province for which he will come out with a comprehensive package once the financial constraints are over.
“As a provincial minister in the last government of PTI in the province, I have made extensive visits to every nook and corner of the district and I am conversant of each and every problem faced by the people and their requirements.
I treat Swat and Chitral at part as my home districts and will leave no stone unturned in making this districts of both upper and Lower Chitral highly developed and prosperous districts which are full of natural resources and toiling people who are decent and fine in their nature”, he said.
Mr. Khan asked the party workers of PTI to start full scale preparations for the forthcoming local bodies’ polls as powers had been devolved to the lower level in which the elected representatives of all tiers will be in an ideal position to deliver to the people in all the sectors of development with particular emphasis on education and health.
He exhorted the party workers to serve the people as elected representatives of the local bodies which are being powers on unperfected level which were not heard of in the past.
He announced to fill up the vacant positions of doctors in THQ hospital Booni, construction of seven numbers of polo grounds in upper Chitral and a drinking water supply scheme in Reshun village where people were forced to consume contaminated water.
On this occasion, he inaugurated the work on the restoration of the 4.2 mega watt hydro power station in Reshun owned by Pakhtukhwa Energy Development Organization at a cost of Rs. 500 million which had been swept away by the flash flood in 2015.
Earlier, he distributed cheques of compensations to the village conservation committees of different villages for the trophy hunting of kashmir markhor in a function held in the office of DC Lower Chitral.
He applauded the conservation efforts of the communities whose efforts have not only saved the population of markhor from extinction but it has now gained the upper limit of the population density in Chitral which was a great achievement.
He also inaugurated the office of Performance management and reforms unit (PMRU) in the premises of DC office of Lower Chitral where he was briefed about the development works in Chitral by the DC Naveed Ahmed.
He was accompanied by provincial minister Ishtiaq Armar, commissioner Malakan Division Riaz Mahsud and chairman District Development Advisory Committee, Wazir Zada.
