MANSEHRA, Nov 27: Mansehra tehsil nazim Nawabzada Mohammad Farooq Khan has said the union council has completed a number of projectsin a short span of time and work on many public welfare schemes was in progress.

He was speaking to the members of the council, representatives of traders and shopkeepers and notables of the town after performing ground-breaking ceremony of the Women's Plaza in Khalla bazaar here on Saturday.

Council members Syed Munir Hussain Shah, Malik Mushtaq Khatana, Mohammad Javed Lodhi and Mohammad Iqbal Awan and Markazi Anjuman-i-Tajiran General Secretary Mohammad Fiyaz Sulehriya also spoke on the occasion.

The tehsil nazim said the three-storey plaza would be constructed at a cost of Rs4 million and would have 36 shops.

He said the plaza was being constructed for providing women opportunities of business and facilities of shopping.

He said the council had adopted measures to safeguard the interests of the traders, and occupants of the shops prior to their demolition had been allotted shops on the ground floor.

The first, second and third floors of the plaza would be exclusively for the womenfolk, he added.

Mr Farooq Khan said all developmental schemes were being carried out by the council through its own resources.

The construction of Kashmir Plaza opposite the TMA office, he said, was under way and the construction of 60 shops at the municipal bus stand and a new fruit and vegetable market on Pano road has been completed.