PESHAWAR: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Wednesday approved 38 development schemes with an estimated cost of Rs16.4 billion.

The PDWP meeting was chaired by additional chief secretary Shakil Qadir Khan.

The projects include upgradation of Abdul Wali Khan University campus at Buner, and existing campuses in Chitral, construction of 60 classrooms at Darul Uloom Islamia, hall and a library at Azakhel Bala Nowshera, rehabilitation of Hindu Samadhi in Banda Daud Shah, establishment of schools for visually impaired in Mohmand and Khyber, making functional existing 105 Dastakari centres in KP, construction of special education complexes, extension of the Prime Minister’s Ehsaas programme to the merged areas, feasibility and design of various road projects, expansion of Bannu-Miranshah Road, rehabilitation of roads in Swat, construction of roads in Torghar, Peshawar urban development programme, upgradation and widening of approach road to Bacha Khan International Airport, upgradation of sports complexes in DI Khan, Bannu, Haripur and Mardan, feasibility study for establishment of sports stadium at Tehkal Peshawar, feasibility and improvement of Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium, innovation fund for entrepreneurs, youth and women, economic uplift of youth (start-up programme), establishment of multi-sectoral development public policy and social protection reforms unit and special development package for Torghar (phase-II).

Other projects include launch of interest-free microfinance schemes for entrepreneurship development in merged areas, KP women skill and entrepreneurship development programme, provision of independent electric feeders at SIEs Peshawar and Mardan, construction of mother & child care hospital in DI Khan, upgradation of DHQ hospital Haripur to category-A hospital, upgradation of Kalam hospital Swat, upgradation of civil hospital Madyan to category-C , establishment of category-D hospital in Upper Gadoon, Swabi, provision of significant diagnostic facilities i.e. CT Scan, MRI etc in DHQ hospitals of Upper and Lower Chitral, upgradation of category-D hospital Pacha Kay in Burner to category-C, upgradation of category-C hospital Chakdara Andezai to category-B, upgradation of DHQ hospital Batragram to category-B, construction of children and maternity hospital, Nowshera, upgradation of Dargai hospital from category-C to category-B.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2021