HARIPUR, Sept 5: The MMA government was committed to ensuring provision of basic facilities, especially health care and education, to the people of Frontier, said provincial minister for sports and culture Raja Faisal Zaman here on Saturday.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a new block of the upgraded Rural Health Centre, Khanpur, the minister said the MMA government was determined to raise the standard of living of common man and for this purpose development of neglected areas was being carried out on a war footing in the province.

The 14-bed rural health centre has been upgraded to a D-type 40-bed hospital having all the facilities of a tehsil headquarters hospital at a cost of Rs68 million. The minister said the government had served the people of the NWFP during the last two years as much as no other government had done in the past.

He said to ensure better health facilities to the people of his constituency he got approved Rs9 million for the improvement of services at all the 11 basic health units of the Khanpur area.

Raja Faisal said he made efforts to set up 10 high schools, two higher secondary schools, and upgrade the higher secondary school for women in Khanpur to the degree college level.

He said Khanpur would soon be granted the status of tehsil headquarters for which necessary paperwork had been completed. Speaking on the occasion, district Nazim Haripur Raja Amer Zaman claimed that he had spent Rs1.5 billion on the uplift of Haripur.