Peshawer:
The Khyber -Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has sanctioned RS1,247 billion in relief for families displaced by floods in Bajaur, as part of a wider set of measures aimed at increasing governance, public services and infrastructure throughout the province.
The move comes as part of a wider package of development and welfare decisions made at the provincial’s 38 cabinet meeting, led by Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur.
In the session, the cabinet approved a new communication strategy for the government and sanctioned reconstruction of Pak Sadd Shaheed Police Lines, as well as new police stations and positions in Peshawar. Land to a police station in Akbarpura, Nowshera, was also green -lit.
The cabinet upgraded Swabis’s under -prison to a district prison and approved staff and prisoner transfers. Oghi Hospital in Mansehra received approval to be upgraded to category -D, while cultural grants were awarded to festivals in the Kalash and Bahá’í communities.
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Further decisions included the acquisition of 50 additional buses for the BRT fleet and the establishment of the country’s largest safari park in Nowshera. The forest department was awarded 14,718 hectares in Tank’s Banda Piru for replanting. Historic Chashma Rest House in Dera Ismail Khan now falls under the Archeology Department’s charges, and a KP Arts and Crafts display center opens in Islamabad.
Financial reforms included increasing net areas with net hydropower for muted districts from 10% to 15%, changes to the rules of health care and women’s commission and audits of the Stamp Act from 1899.
The cabinet increased the province’s minimal monthly salary from RS36,000 to RS40,000. Funding was also sanctioned for the construction of an Nadra office in Dera Ismail Khan, a grant of RS6 million for a kidney transplant and KP’s participation in Islamabad National Youth Games 2025.
In addition, RS100 million was Rations awarded to earthquake victims in Afghanistan.
A briefing on wheat and grain supplies painted a reassuring outlook, although officials obliged to ongoing purchases if necessary. The meeting ended with prayers for the deceased from floods and the Afghan earthquake and for the rapid improvement of the wounded.
