PHED approves Rs737m projects

Published March 29, 2017

PESHAWAR: A meeting of Departmental Development Working Party (DDWP) of the Public Health Engineering Department on Tuesday approved 41 schemes, including that of water supply, with an estimated cost of Rs737 million.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the planning and development, finance and PHED, including director planning and monitoring, deputy secretary (technical), chief engineers (south/north) along with executive engineers.

Of the 46 development schemes under consideration, the DDWP approved 41 while five schemes were deferred.

The approved projects included construction and rehabilitation of water supply and sanitation schemes in various union councils of the province, construction of solar-based water supply schemes in Lakki Marwat, construction of gravity-based water supply schemes in Upper Dir, Swat, Kohistan, Battagram, Lower Dir and Chitral and restoration of non-functional schemes of Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Haripur and Battagram.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2017

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