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Rs 6 billion uplift projects launched in Swabi
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Our correspondent
SWABI: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti Saturday said that development projects worth Rs6 billion have been launched in the district.
Addressing a public gathering on the premises of the Shahmansoor Hospital, he announced upgradation of the hospital to a complex, saying that the District Headquarters Hospital would also remain intact.
The chief minister said that construction of the buildings for two newly created Topi and Razaar tehsils would cost Rs380 million. He said that 25 acres of land had been procured for the construction of the Swabi Judicial Lock-Up and the fund for its building had also been sanctioned by the government.
The chief minister announced Rs150 million for upgrading the Topi Civil Hospital and Rs150 million for the provision of five ambulances to the DHQ and Shahmansoor hospitals. Similarly, he said the upgrading of Kalu Khan Hospital in Razaar tehsil would cost Rs150 million.
The campus of the Khan Abdul Wali University, Mardan, would be opened in Swabi this year, he said. He also announced constriction of Swabi Press Club and a college for boys in upper Gadoon Amazai.
“The government will initiate lift irrigation scheme from the Pehur High Level Canal to irrigate the barren land of the district,†he said.
Tight security arrangements had been made during the visit of the chief minister. The Swabi-Jahangira Road remained closed for all kinds of traffic.
It was first time in the history of the district that a large number of women participated in the public meeting addressed by the chief minister.
