KOHAT: The district development advisory committee (DDAC) chairman Ziaullah Bangash on Tuesday approved Rs146 million worth development schemes in irrigation and communications sectors and ordered immediate start of work on them.

He took exception to delay in completion of various projects and directed the heads of the concerned departments to ensure completion of 50 per cent work on the schemes launched under the 2013-14 ADP, by this year end.

He issued the directives while speaking at the DDAC meeting here on Tuesday.

Project director of KDA Town Najeed Afridi, assistant director local government, Mohammad Abid, district in charge of SNGPL Mohammad Rehan, district officer finance Rehman Wahid ur Rehman Khattak and heads of other government departments were in attendance.

Mr Bangash directed the management of the under-construction information technology park to pay withheld wages to the employees. He also ordered payment of blocked bills to the contractors.

District officer finance Wahid ur Rehman Khattak told the meeting that the schemes had been formally forwarded to the district development committee (DDC) for implementation.

The DDAC chairman asked the concerned officials to prepare PC-1 of the schemes at the earliest so that promised facilities could be provided to people without delay.

VEHICLE VERIFICATION: The Kohat police’s mobile vehicle verification service has so far checked over 20,000 vehicles and traced 89 with fake number plates, unregistered and stolen vehicles across the district.

This was stated by district police officer Mohammad Sohaib Ashraf while talking to reporters on Tuesday. He said the SMS-based service prepared by Nadra was available on the handsets of station house officers of Kohat city, Ustarzai, Mohammad Riaz Shaheed, Lachi and in-charge of Rescue-15. The vehicles could be verified in five seconds with the help of the district excise and taxation office, he maintained.

The DPO said the police had also arrested 103 persons with non-custom paid or stolen vehicles. The stolen had been handed over to real owners through police stations all over the country, he maintained.

Mr Ashraf said 36,000 vehicles were plying on the Kohat roads whose record was being verified. He said a comprehensive computerised mechanism had been established to keep record of stolen vehicles.

LAND DISPUTE RESOLVED: The political agent of Frontier Region of Kohat and army on Tuesday amicably resolved an old dispute between sub-clans of Afridi Akhorwal tribe over demarcation of mountains containing coal reserves in Darra Adamkhel.

The decision came at a jirga chaired by Kamran Ahmed Afridi, deputy commissioner, Kohat, who is also the political agent of FR Kohat.

Army Sector Commander of Darra Adamkhel Brig Mushtaq, assistant political agent, FR Kohat, Asad Haroon, and elders Malik Khaista Khan, Malik Noor Mohammad, Malik Yar Akbar, Malik Nazeer Afridi, Malik Asmatullah and Malik Ashraf were in attendance.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2015

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