PESHAWAR, Dec 6: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai has announced a special development package of Rs200 million for the backward Alikhel tribe of Orakzai Agency.

Under the package, 25 schemes in the education, health, communications and livestock sectors will be executed. Thirty-one flood protection bunds and 10 tube-wells are also proposed to be built.

Addressing a jirga of elders of the tribe at the Governor’s House here on Thursday, Gen Aurakzai announced the establishment of a separate Orakzai Scouts in the agency for which the recruitment process had already been initiated.

The jirga was also attended by Secretary to Governor Azmat Hanif and Political Agent Fakhr-i-Alam.

The governor informed the jirga members that the Chargho Dam had been approved, adding that the dam, though small in capacity, would cater to the water needs of the people of the area.

He expressed satisfaction at the law and order situation in the Orakzai Agency and said: “Peace is a prerequisite for progress and development.”

He, however, cautioned the elders about the foreign and mischievous elements and added that these elements had put local tribesmen in hot water by creating law and order situation in certain tribal areas.

He said the tribesmen of the Orakzai Agency should be aware of the upheaval which the people of Waziristan and Swat had been facing.

The governor said that the development process was moving smoothly in the Orakzai Agency due to the peaceful conditions there.