PM to attend special meeting of KP cabinet today

Published December 14, 2018
Provincial government has identified 25 initiatives to pursue during the next five years under the premier’s directions.
Provincial government has identified 25 initiatives to pursue during the next five years under the premier’s directions.

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit the provincial capital on Friday (today) where he would be briefed on the provincial government’s100-day plans.

A statement issued here said that the prime minister would attend a special meeting of the provincial cabinet and later a programme at Nishtar Hall.

It said that the provincial government had identified 25 initiatives to pursue during the next five years under the premier’s directions.

In health sector, the KP government has planned to recruit additional 4,000 LHWs to ensure coverage of all rural areas in addition to rolling out a rural ambulance service to transport mothers and children to health facilities. The government will also ensure that 80 per cent of expectant mothers give birth in health facilities.

“Within three years, the government is committed to ensuring that all 120 secondary hospitals in the province provide 24/7 services and each district has at least one fully operational secondary health facility within a year,” it said.

In agricultural sector, the government plans to introduce a functional IT-based market intelligence system to increase farmers profit by 15-20 per cent along with reclaiming 5,500 hectares of cultivatable wastelands.

It said that KP would become the first province to launch police station-based budget this year along with fourfold increase in the number of female police officers.

Published in Dawn, December 14th, 2018

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