KOHAT: Tehsil council, Kohat, has unanimously passed its budget of Rs840 million for the fiscal year 2017-18.

The session was chaired by naib nazim Shahid Khan and attended by all the members. The budget was presented in the house on Wednesday.

Talking to Dawn, tehsil nazim Malik Taimoor said on Friday that Rs190 million had been set aside for development schemes and Rs50 million for pension, while rest of the amount would be partly spent on salaries and a quarter of it would go to the water supply and sanitation company.

He explained that the budget amount had been paid by the provincial government as 30 per cent share of the Kohat district under the provincial finance award. He said that the funds would be distributed among the councillors equally.

The nazim said that almost eight per cent of the budget would go to non-development activities.

Nazim says Rs190 million set aside for uplift schemes

PASSING OUT PARADE: Provincial minister for law Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi has said that provincial police has become a strong force due to modern training and political non-interference.

Speaking at the 67th passing out parade of the Kohat Recruit Training School here on Friday, he said that the KP police had rendered great sacrifices alongside the Pakistan Army in the fight against terrorism and extremism.

The minister said that PC-1 of the boundary wall of the centre was ready and asked the deputy commissioner to prepare summary for the auditorium and solar panels.

MILLS HAVE OWN ELECTRICITY: All textile mills have been put on their own imported gas electricity plants getting uninterrupted supply at almost half the production cost compared to Pesco for 24 hours generation.

In-charge of the power house at Babri Yarn Mills Engineer Mohammad Arif told this scribe on Friday that in all four Chinese plants had been installed with a capacity of four megawatts. The energy produced is enough to run the 53,000 spindles at a time. He said that the total price incurred on import of the three new plants with cost escalation was Rs96 million.

Three new own plants had been commissioned at the Janana De Malacho (JDM) textile mills with a total production of six megawatts costing Rs96 million. Kohat Textile Mills had also bought two second-hand and two new plants.

Mr Arif said that the 80 per cent workload of the mills was on the plants and 20 per cent on Pesco. He said that the tariff of Pesco was Rs14 per unit whereas the plants generation incurred cost of only Rs6 per unit.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2017