Chitral Times Report
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has said that 1320 residential flats will be constructed with total cost of Rs 3300 million in Jalozai area of Nowshera district under Naya Pakistan Hosing Scheme for the people with low income adding that residential flats would be constructed within on 150 Kanals of land and be allotted purely on merit basis to the low earning people. He termed the construction of residential flats as another significant step towards the realization of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision of providing state of the art residential facilities to low earning segments of the society. He expressed these views while addressing the ground breaking ceremony of the construction of Jalozai flats here on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Imran Khan formally performed the ground breaking ceremony of the project during his visit to jalozai, Nowshera. In his address to the ceremony, the Chief Minister termed this project as a milestone achievement of the incumbent government towards establishing a welfare society and added that for the first time in the history of Pakistan, the incumbent government had launched multiple initiatives and taken concrete steps for the well-being of vulnerable and middle class segments of the society. He said that the provincial government was not only supporting the Prime Minister’s vision regarding provision of mass scale employment opportunities to the people by boosting the housing and construction industry but was also taking practical steps to this effect. “Work is in full swing on various housing projects in the province and all these projects would be completed within the stipulated timelines”, he said.
Touching upon the different housing projects, Mahmood Khan said that provincial government had already launched Hangu Township Scheme under which plots have also been allotted to the people. Besides three different projects of high rise flats in Peshawar, work is also in progress on such projects in other districts, including Mardan, Charsadda and Swat. He said that “Peshawar Model Town” was a mega project of the provincial government in housing sector under which residential plots would be allotted to the low earning people as well. Similarly, he said that an MoU had also been signed with “Naya Pakistan Housing Authority” for another housing scheme at Sorizai near Peshawar.
