LARKANA, Nov 10: The district development working party (DDWP), Larkana, encompassing different sectors, approved a three-year development plan to the tune of Rs535.30 million.
The district coordination officer, Larkana, Dr Badruddin Ujjan, presided over the meeting, which was attended among others by the executive district officers of the health, education, finance, works and services and district officers concerned.
The focus remained on enhancing educational activities, preserving 100-year-old office buildings, providing health provisions, and constructing farm-to-market roads, a source in the district government told this correspondent on Monday.
The construction of 48 farm-to-market roads will cost Rs170 million.
It would also increase economic activities in the district and sub-divisional headquarters, the meeting observed.
The meeting, which lasted two days, also approved 16 road improvement schemes at a cost of Rs100 million, the sources said.
The old Mukhtiarkar offices constructed during colonial times would be renovated, preserving their original structures, at a cost of Rs17 million under which 15 schemes would be executed.
The district development working party has approved water supply and drainage schemes for Rs189 million, including the giant drainage scheme of Larkana city worth Rs100 million. The Sindh government would provide 70 per cent of the cost of this scheme.
However, in rural areas for water supply and drainage schemes, the district development working party had approved an amount of Rs30 million, while Rs27 million would be spent on the renovation of 22 Basic Health Units and Rural Health Centres in the district along with constructing seven new dispensaries in remote areas.
The district development working party also approved 15 new schemes in the educational sector and earmarked Rs1.3 million for it.
The participants of the meeting were informed that under the educational sector, 80 shelterless schools would be provided new buildings and 50 additional classrooms would be constructed in higher secondary and secondary schools as part of their rehabilitation programme.
Sources said that the meeting approved revival of the old ‘ladies club’ for which an amount of Rs1 million was sanctioned initially, and added that more new schemes would also be included in the three-year development plan.