PESHAWAR, Feb 2: The NWFP Environment Department has decided to re-employee all those ex-employees of the Social Forestry Project whose services had been terminated due to completion of the project.

It has further decided that such employees would be at liberty either to get re-employed or retire from active service.

The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held at the Civil Secretariat, Peshawar, under the chairmanship of Minister for Environment and Finance Shah Raz Khan on Friday.

Shah Raz Khan said that the MMA-led provincial government was taking measures for the protection of environment and provision of pollution free environment to the next generation and added that due to their strategy the forest-covered area had increased in the province.

He said that the developmental budget for the environment related projects would be increased in the next financial year.—PPI