10-year plan formulated for tribal districts uplift, says minister

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra has said that the provincial government has formulated a 10-year socioeconomic sustainable development plan for the uplift of merged districts to raise the human development indicators and bring it on a par with other parts of the country.People of the merged districts would be given a due say in the decision-making and development process to put an end to the decades-long sense of frustration and deprivation, he told a delegation of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan here. The meeting focused on mutual cooperation in different sectors in the province and 10 years Sustainable Development Strategy Plan for merged districts was discussed in detail. The finance minister said that the provincial government had a strong commitment to the sustained development, prosperity and well-being of the people of the merged districts and exploring potential avenues in order to generate economic opportunities, he added. He added that all the cabinet members of KP government had already started a series of visits to the merged districts to closely incorporate with the local of the merged areas to directly include them in the development process.The delegation said the UNDP was closely working with the federal and provincial governments for the sustainable development of the erstwhile Fata and would extend its full support and cooperation in future too. The meeting agreed on further enhancing the level of mutual cooperation between the two sides.

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