KOHAT: The district development advisory committee has approved 114 projects worth Rs600 million in the education, health and communication sectors. The projects will be executed from the oil and gas royalty funds. The committee also set aside Rs60 million for repair of roads in the three provincial assembly constituencies in the district.

The projects were approved at a meeting of the committee here on Monday chaired by MPA Ziaullah Bangash. Executive officer finance Wahidur Rehman Khattak briefed the participants about the projects.

Deputy commissioner Amjid Ali Khan, heads of all the departments, project director of KDA Town Engineer Najibur Rehman, chief municipal officer Mohammad Shoeb and others were in attendance.

The meeting said a part of the allocations would be spent on the projects which couldn’t be completed due to shortage of funds.

The committee sanctioned over Rs30 million for 27 projects in PK-39 constituency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Deputy Speaker Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi. The projects included provision of gas, water and communications facilities.

Similarly, 46 projects worth Rs180 million were approved for PK-37 constituency of advisor to chief minister Amjid Khan Afridi. Rs180 million were sanctioned for 38 projects to be executed in PK-38 constituency of the district development advisory committee chairman Ziaullah Bangash. The projects are in the fields of health, information technology, electricity supply and social welfare.

Besides, the meeting approved construction of seven new primary schools and additional rooms to the existing ones in the three constituencies.

The deputy commissioner asked the irrigation department to submit reports of the functional and non-functional schemes to him so impediments in their speedy completion could be removed.

TWO KILLED ON ROAD: An over-speeding passenger coach hit and killed two motorcyclists on Rawalpindi road here on Monday. The deceased were identified as Tofail and Safiullah, residents of Taulanj. The police arrested the driver and impounded the vehicle.

In another incident, one Asif Noor shot dead his sister over some domestic issue in Mohallah Shinwari here, police said and added the accused escaped the area.

Similarly, one Sarfraz killed Abdul Qayyum in Jungle Khel area and escaped.

The police found the body of a man on the bank of River Indus, and buried it in Khushalgarh graveyard after nobody came to claim the body.