PESHAWAR, April 28: The government has identified six potential sites in Aurakzai Agency for the construction of small dams. “The government has allocated Rs245 million for the development programme which was being spent on 99 development schemes, including 88 ongoing and 11 new schemes, which have been approved for the Aurakzai Agency,” said an Aurakzai agency press release here on Thursday. It further said that out of the six potential sites for constructing small dams, four were said to be feasible.

In the 2004-05 Annual Development Programme for the agency, out of the total outlay Rs107.25 have since been utilized with 95 per cent overall utilization. However, utilization ratio in Public Health Engineering, communication, housing, power, forest and rural development has remained 100 per cent.

Two projects in the education, three in communication, one each in health and Public Health Engineering and two in irrigation sectors have been targeted for completion whereas three educational development projects, one each of health and irrigation sectors being untargeted were also nearing completion, the release said.

The government has allocated Rs57.81 for the education sector which is 24 per cent of the total budget.

The release said the allocation for the communication sector is Rs69.37 million that is 29 per cent of the total value of the annual outlay. The government has formed a special development project worth Rs131 million for Mamozai area of the agency.

The project was also under implementation with 35 total schemes in education, health, communication, public health engineering, irrigation, forest and LG and RD sectors.

Similarly, a number of other schemes under the Barani Area development project were also in progress to put the agency on the road to progress and development.

—APP