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Ecnec approved the Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETP-KP). The project is aimed at improving the income of rural households through multi-sector interventions in agribusiness development and employment promotion.
It will be implemented in 35 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and contribute to poverty reduction and food and nutrition security of rural communities.
The total cost of the project is Rs30.3 billion including a foreign loan of Rs17.6 billion. The provincial government’s share will be Rs4.7 billion and the beneficiaries’ share is estimated at Rs8 billion with project gestation period of seven years, according to the finance ministry.
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Ecnec approved the Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETP-KP). The project is aimed at improving the income of rural households through multi-sector interventions in agribusiness development and employment promotion.
It will be implemented in 35 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and contribute to poverty reduction and food and nutrition security of rural communities.
The total cost of the project is Rs30.3 billion including a foreign loan of Rs17.6 billion. The provincial government’s share will be Rs4.7 billion and the beneficiaries’ share is estimated at Rs8 billion with project gestation period of seven years, according to the finance ministry.
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Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority built two-way road (24KM) and three-bridge construction project of Sherkot to Hangu road .
It is a part of the provincial highway S-7 that exits Indus Highway junction and ends at the border of Karam district. It has a total length of 115 km. From Kohat (Hangu Chowk) to Sherkot, 16 km road section.
Four lane Carriageway has been upgraded in Hi. This is an important road connecting Kohat district to Hangu district and Karam district.
In addition to district Orakzai district, North Waziristan district has also been connected to S-7 via link roads.
This road plays an important role in trade and business development, as this project will provide further facilitation of trade with Afghanistan and will have a good impact on Pakistan's economy.
The development of this section to the affiliated population from Kohat and other parts of the country There will be a better communication assistant.
Police Training College Hangu from Hangu. The completion of the project will increase effective connections, reduce travel duration, faster movement of local products in the market, as well as employment opportunities for locals.
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Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority built two-way road (24KM) and three-bridge construction project of Sherkot to Hangu road .
It is a part of the provincial highway S-7 that exits Indus Highway junction and ends at the border of Karam district. It has a total length of 115 km. From Kohat (Hangu Chowk) to Sherkot, 16 km road section.
Four lane Carriageway has been upgraded in Hi. This is an important road connecting Kohat district to Hangu district and Karam district.
In addition to district Orakzai district, North Waziristan district has also been connected to S-7 via link roads.
This road plays an important role in trade and business development, as this project will provide further facilitation of trade with Afghanistan and will have a good impact on Pakistan's economy.
The development of this section to the affiliated population from Kohat and other parts of the country There will be a better communication assistant.
Police Training College Hangu from Hangu. The completion of the project will increase effective connections, reduce travel duration, faster movement of local products in the market, as well as employment opportunities for locals.
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Swat Motorway Phase-II
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan will lay the foundation stone of Swat Motorway Phase-II next week.
The Chief Minister also directed the concerned quarters to expedite progress on Dir Motorway project’s PC 1 for acquisition of land so that physical work on the project could be initiated. He was chairing the meeting of the Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority to review progress on different road projects including Swat Motorway Phase II and Dir Motorway.
Briefing the meeting about progress on Swat Motorway Phase II, it was informed that 88 km long motorway from Chakdara to Fatehpur would be constructed at a cost of Rs58 billion adding that concessionaire agreement had been signed for the execution of the project.
It was informed that Rs6.7 billion has been released for the acquisition of land for the project. Moreover, section four had been imposed for land acquisition....
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Swat Motorway Phase-II
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan will lay the foundation stone of Swat Motorway Phase-II next week.
The Chief Minister also directed the concerned quarters to expedite progress on Dir Motorway project’s PC 1 for acquisition of land so that physical work on the project could be initiated. He was chairing the meeting of the Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority to review progress on different road projects including Swat Motorway Phase II and Dir Motorway.
Briefing the meeting about progress on Swat Motorway Phase II, it was informed that 88 km long motorway from Chakdara to Fatehpur would be constructed at a cost of Rs58 billion adding that concessionaire agreement had been signed for the execution of the project.
It was informed that Rs6.7 billion has been released for the acquisition of land for the project. Moreover, section four had been imposed for land acquisition....
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PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided in principles to launch Food Card Programme in the upcoming annual budget.
Under the proposed Food Card Programme, it is initially proposed to provide free of cost wheat flour or provision of four basic food items at subsidised rates to the deserving households. Approximately one million households and over 5.00 million individuals will benefit from the Programme.
The decision was taken during a meeting held here Thursday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair.
Special Assistant to CM on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Secretary Finance Ikramullah Khan and Secretary Food Mushtaq Ahmad and other relevant officials of food department attended the meeting.
On this occasion, the chief minister directed the quarters concerned to take necessary steps to finalise the proposed Food Card Programme till the budget of new fiscal year.
The meeting was briefed in detail about the preliminary sketch and features of the proposed Food Card Programme, registration of deserving households, estimated cost, implementation mechanism and other various aspects of the programme.
The meeting also reviewed the various proposals for providing basic food items to deserving households on subsidised rates under the proposed programme.
The chief minister has directed the quarters concerned to submit workable proposals for approval to this effect. He also directed the food department to finalise the list of deserving households for the purpose.
Talking on the occasion, the chief minister said that he was fully aware of the problems of people due to current inflation in the country adding that incumbent government was taking solid steps to curtail the burden of inflation on general public.
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PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided in principles to launch Food Card Programme in the upcoming annual budget.
Under the proposed Food Card Programme, it is initially proposed to provide free of cost wheat flour or provision of four basic food items at subsidised rates to the deserving households. Approximately one million households and over 5.00 million individuals will benefit from the Programme.
The decision was taken during a meeting held here Thursday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair.
Special Assistant to CM on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Secretary Finance Ikramullah Khan and Secretary Food Mushtaq Ahmad and other relevant officials of food department attended the meeting.
On this occasion, the chief minister directed the quarters concerned to take necessary steps to finalise the proposed Food Card Programme till the budget of new fiscal year.
The meeting was briefed in detail about the preliminary sketch and features of the proposed Food Card Programme, registration of deserving households, estimated cost, implementation mechanism and other various aspects of the programme.
The meeting also reviewed the various proposals for providing basic food items to deserving households on subsidised rates under the proposed programme.
The chief minister has directed the quarters concerned to submit workable proposals for approval to this effect. He also directed the food department to finalise the list of deserving households for the purpose.
Talking on the occasion, the chief minister said that he was fully aware of the problems of people due to current inflation in the country adding that incumbent government was taking solid steps to curtail the burden of inflation on general public.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2022
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April 9, 2022
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa forestry, environment and wildlife department has prepared a strategy to reduce desertification and forest degradation at the cost of over Rs2.15 billion in the next 10 years.
Soon after coming to power in the province 2013, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had launched the Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Programme in the province.
The initiative was later extended to other parts of the country as the Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation programme after the party formed government in the centre in 2018.
The strategy, whose draft is available with Dawn and is called the Reducing Emission from Desertification and forest Degradation (REDD+) Action Plan, is part of the Pakistan National REDD+ Strategy, which was approved in 2021.
The KP Provincial REDD+ Action Plan (Prap) has been developed to contribute to the strategy’s objectives and sustainable management of forest resources.
According to the Prap, starting in the early 2000s, KP has been a pioneer in introducing participatory forest management and successfully formalising the approach in its legal frameworks, and because of this history, KP naturally takes a community-based approach to REDD+.
“KP’s REDD+ Action Plan is founded on this history of community-based approaches to resource management.”
The document said the preparation of KP Prap took a multi-stakeholder participatory approach.
“The overarching purpose of the Prap is to increase benefits from sustainably managed and enhanced forest resources for the people contributing to their livelihood and at the same time mitigating climate change,” it said.
On the other documents has outlined specific objectives including outlining actions in line with ground realities to address the prioritised drivers and barriers with the context of specific actions and related budget, improving health of the forest ecosystems by reducing deforestation and forest degradation and enhancements of biomass and defining effective implementation and monitoring of REDD+ actions to address the drivers.
Also, the strategy will focus on identifying social and environmental risks associated with proposed actions and suggest risk mitigation.
The document identified the clearing of forestland for agriculture, and housing colonies and settlement as the main drivers of deforestation. Also, high demand for energy, construction timber and grazing and illegal timber extraction for selling for construction and firewood and improperly managed tourism activities have been identified as drivers of forest degradation in the province.
“These drivers were analysed by the stakeholders and several underlying causes were identified,” it said.
The document said the Prap proposed several actions to address underlying causes of deforestation and degradation and one of them was achieving the efficiency and alternative sources of energy to address the main cause of degradation, which was firewood extraction for energy.
Also, mapping resources and effective implementation of regulation to curb conversion of land to other land uses are other priority areas identified in the Prap.
According to the documents, the strategy, to address the issue of deforestation, has suggested to improve forest resources include improving enabling policy environment for REDD+ implementation which include participatory monitoring system, benefit sharing mechanism, forest law enforcement and implementation strengthened, capacity building of actors on forest monitoring system besides introducing alternative incomes and livelihood opportunities, promoting sustainable forest-based enterprises and vocational education, and forest-based payments from forest ecosystem services.
It also proposed a set of interlinked activities that form coherent actions for counteracting a driver of deforestation, forest degradation and/ or barriers to expansion of a forest carbon enhancement activity.
“One of the key actions identified in the Prap is continuation and refining participatory approach to forest management in which the province has already travelled a long way,” the draft strategy said. Also, integration of trees on private lands (as in case of BTAP) has been emphasised to promote sustainable solutions to energy demands on forests.
The document also said the Prap would make traction through participatory forest management plans with an approach that encouraged harvesting trees on a rotational basis so that timber and fuel might be produced and used sustainably for local use.
The Prap suggested activities to enhance forest stocks to ensure that forests continue to see improvement for effective REDD+ results.
Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2022
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10-year strategy developed to reduce desertification, forest degradation in KP
Bureau ReportApril 9, 2022
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa forestry, environment and wildlife department has prepared a strategy to reduce desertification and forest degradation at the cost of over Rs2.15 billion in the next 10 years.
Soon after coming to power in the province 2013, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had launched the Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Programme in the province.
The initiative was later extended to other parts of the country as the Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation programme after the party formed government in the centre in 2018.
The strategy, whose draft is available with Dawn and is called the Reducing Emission from Desertification and forest Degradation (REDD+) Action Plan, is part of the Pakistan National REDD+ Strategy, which was approved in 2021.
The KP Provincial REDD+ Action Plan (Prap) has been developed to contribute to the strategy’s objectives and sustainable management of forest resources.
According to the Prap, starting in the early 2000s, KP has been a pioneer in introducing participatory forest management and successfully formalising the approach in its legal frameworks, and because of this history, KP naturally takes a community-based approach to REDD+.
“KP’s REDD+ Action Plan is founded on this history of community-based approaches to resource management.”
The document said the preparation of KP Prap took a multi-stakeholder participatory approach.
“The overarching purpose of the Prap is to increase benefits from sustainably managed and enhanced forest resources for the people contributing to their livelihood and at the same time mitigating climate change,” it said.
On the other documents has outlined specific objectives including outlining actions in line with ground realities to address the prioritised drivers and barriers with the context of specific actions and related budget, improving health of the forest ecosystems by reducing deforestation and forest degradation and enhancements of biomass and defining effective implementation and monitoring of REDD+ actions to address the drivers.
Also, the strategy will focus on identifying social and environmental risks associated with proposed actions and suggest risk mitigation.
The document identified the clearing of forestland for agriculture, and housing colonies and settlement as the main drivers of deforestation. Also, high demand for energy, construction timber and grazing and illegal timber extraction for selling for construction and firewood and improperly managed tourism activities have been identified as drivers of forest degradation in the province.
“These drivers were analysed by the stakeholders and several underlying causes were identified,” it said.
The document said the Prap proposed several actions to address underlying causes of deforestation and degradation and one of them was achieving the efficiency and alternative sources of energy to address the main cause of degradation, which was firewood extraction for energy.
Also, mapping resources and effective implementation of regulation to curb conversion of land to other land uses are other priority areas identified in the Prap.
According to the documents, the strategy, to address the issue of deforestation, has suggested to improve forest resources include improving enabling policy environment for REDD+ implementation which include participatory monitoring system, benefit sharing mechanism, forest law enforcement and implementation strengthened, capacity building of actors on forest monitoring system besides introducing alternative incomes and livelihood opportunities, promoting sustainable forest-based enterprises and vocational education, and forest-based payments from forest ecosystem services.
It also proposed a set of interlinked activities that form coherent actions for counteracting a driver of deforestation, forest degradation and/ or barriers to expansion of a forest carbon enhancement activity.
“One of the key actions identified in the Prap is continuation and refining participatory approach to forest management in which the province has already travelled a long way,” the draft strategy said. Also, integration of trees on private lands (as in case of BTAP) has been emphasised to promote sustainable solutions to energy demands on forests.
The document also said the Prap would make traction through participatory forest management plans with an approach that encouraged harvesting trees on a rotational basis so that timber and fuel might be produced and used sustainably for local use.
The Prap suggested activities to enhance forest stocks to ensure that forests continue to see improvement for effective REDD+ results.
Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2022
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Development work in Bajaur district After peace was established in all the seven agencies of the former FATA, the government of Pakistan merged them into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by giving them the status of districts under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. After the amalgamation, extensive development work was started in these districts.
Development work in Bajaur district After peace was established in all the seven agencies of the former FATA, the government of Pakistan merged them into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by giving them the status of districts under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. After the amalgamation, extensive development work was started in these districts.
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Rashakai Special Economic Zone.
In an interview with Chinese Media, Hassan Duad Butt, CEO of KP-BoIT stated that eleven enterprises are establishing industrial units in the Rashakai Special Economic Zone.
He also said that the development of the Rashakai SEZ, which would be commercially launched on May 28, 2021, is on track. Century Steel, a Chinese-owned company that will be a state-of-the-art steel manufacturing facility, is one of the industrial units now under construction.
In addition, 11 businesses have been given 42 acres of land in the SEZ to build industrial units with an estimated investment of Rs11.826 billion and 2,500 job possibilities. In addition, he also said the SEZ will be built in three phases over the course of six to seven years. The zone’s electricity supply has likewise been divided into three phases..
In Phase One, 10 Mw was provided in Sept 2020; in Phase Two, 160 Mw will be provided, and 90% of work has been completed and in Phase Three, 50 Mw will be provided.
Rashakai Special Economic Zone.
In an interview with Chinese Media, Hassan Duad Butt, CEO of KP-BoIT stated that eleven enterprises are establishing industrial units in the Rashakai Special Economic Zone.
He also said that the development of the Rashakai SEZ, which would be commercially launched on May 28, 2021, is on track. Century Steel, a Chinese-owned company that will be a state-of-the-art steel manufacturing facility, is one of the industrial units now under construction.
In addition, 11 businesses have been given 42 acres of land in the SEZ to build industrial units with an estimated investment of Rs11.826 billion and 2,500 job possibilities. In addition, he also said the SEZ will be built in three phases over the course of six to seven years. The zone’s electricity supply has likewise been divided into three phases..
In Phase One, 10 Mw was provided in Sept 2020; in Phase Two, 160 Mw will be provided, and 90% of work has been completed and in Phase Three, 50 Mw will be provided.
