MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Ch Abdul Majeed disclosed here late Monday that Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will inaugurate Rs101 billion Mangla Dam raising project in Mirpur Azad Jammu & Kashmir placing a grand milestone of the speedy economic progress and prosperity of Pakistan including AJK especially to permanently combat the problem of loadshedding of power in the country. The Prime Minister of Pakistan will be accorded a historical rousing reception on his arrival in Mirpur in the near future where he will also inaugurate AJKs largest Dhan Galli bridge over Jhelum river on Dadayal-Rawalpindi Road in Mirpur district, Ch Majeed announced while addressing a hurriedly-called press conference at the PWD Rest House. The bridge, he said, has been constructed as a mega public welfare project in the wake of raising of the Mangla dam, the second largest reservoir of Pakistan located in Mirpur district. The AJK Prime Minister directed the party workers and leaders to start initiating all necessary steps for according a grand reception to the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during his forthcoming visit to this part of AJK. The AJK prime minister said that raising of Mangla dam would add to the annual saving of Rs25 billion to the national exchequer of Pakistan. He said that the due rights of the Mangla dam raising project would be accorded in line with the already-determined policy of the government. He said that the educated youth belonging to Mangla dam affectees would be preferred for accommodating in all the government jobs. Ch Majeed continued that that with the liberal financial assistance his government was fully committed to raise the lifestyle of the common man across Azad Jammu Kashmir equally both in urban and country side areas of the liberated territory. He said that the AJK government was grateful of the installation of various mega projects of public welfare in Muzaffarabad recently inaugurated by PM Gilani. With the proposed allocation of required funds in the fiscal year AJK budget, the AJK government has principally decided to ink integrated plans to promote and encourage the collective and mutual potentials of private and public sectors for raising the lifestyle of common man in AJK. He said that Mirpur would soon have network of grand public parks. He said that the grand double way constructed by Wapda around Mangla Dam lake will be made more beautiful with the construction of public parks to attract the tourists. The Prime Minister declared that with the liberal financial assistance of the government of Pakistan, the AJK government has already released development funds of billions of rupees for various mega public welfare projects of Mirpur district including this city under the spirit of the Mangla dam raising project and it was now the responsibility of the nation-building departments to complete new and ongoing development project within stipulated time frame. Ch Majeed said that the government of Pakistan especially President Asif Zardari and the Prime Minister were taking keen interest in the development and progress of the liberated territory including the earthquake hit zone as well as the Mangla dam affectees.