KP CM performs ground-breaking of various uplift schemes in Swat

Swat - Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Wednesday paid a day-long visit to Tehsil Charbagh and Kabal of district Swat where he performed ground-breaking of various development projects including Swat University Women Campus, Malam Jabba to Shangla top Road, upgradation of Khawaza Khela Hospital, Junkie Khel, Azai Khel, Matorzai Irrigation Channel, Khawaza Khela Bypass Road, Veterinary University, 132KV Kabal Grid Station , Kanjoo Bypass Road, Sports Complex and other important projects of public welfare. He also inaugurated a number of recently completed development projects including Upgradation of Tehsil Headquarter Hospital to Category-C Hospital, Tehsil Complex Kabal etc.

Talking to media persons on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that the government during last four years had made multi-sectoral planning to put the province on the path of sustainable development and now the same was being implemented on ground everywhere in the province. Most of the projects, he said, were now due for completion. He said that work on a number of new projects has also been started. He said that dream of the people of Swat about their development and prosperity now is being converted into reality. Long-term development planning for next thirty to forty years, he added, has been done for Swat.

Mahmood Khan said that he will soon visit to Dir, Buner and other parts of the province to inaugurate multiple development projects completed by the incumbent provincial government.

Mahmood Khan terms shelter homes, Sehat Card scheme pro-poor initiatives of PTI govt in KP

Responding to a question, the Chief Minister Said that incumbent federal government was a kind of an interim government which will hardly last three months. “Most of the members of the federal cabinet are on bail in various cases whereas incumbent Prime Minister is also facing corruption charge of Rs16 billion,” he said. The Chief Minister said that Imran Khan has started a public movement against this “imported government” and millions of people are protesting peacefully on Imran Khan’s call across the country.

Mahmood Khan maintained that after successful rallies in Peshawar and Karachi, today PTI will show its street power at Lahore and the people of Punjab will also made it clear that they are not ready to accept this “imported government.”

Responding to another question, the Chief Minister said that shelter homes established in the province and Sehat Card scheme were pro-poor initiatives of the PTI government which would not be closed at any cost. The provincial government, he said, is making necessary legislation in order to run these welfare initiatives on permanent basis so that any other government in future could not stop these poor-friendly projects.

 

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