PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak has said that making the province agriculturally self-reliant, ensuring food security for the people, provision of justice and making merit-based decisions are the important targets of his government.
He said this while presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet. Provincial ministers, chief secretary, additional chief secretary and administrative secretaries attended the meeting.
The chief minister said that the public sector institutions should reconcile their functions for the sustainable development in all sectors.
The CM was optimistic that agriculture sector development would lead to the reclamation of barren lands, provision of jobs, food autarky and bringing the economic prosperity to the rural areas of the province. He added that his government in principle agreed to provide a five-tier formula for the college teachers and professors, which after working out modalities would be implemented.
Pervez Khattak said that his government had the capacity to lead the province towards sustained economic growth. “Every individual in the system of governance must show responsiveness for the effective governance,” he added.
The chief minister also directed to prepare a comprehensive plan for the efficient use of agriculture department land for enhanced productivity in the agriculture sector. The cabinet formed a committee to be headed by the additional chief secretary that will consider the future needs of all departments and entities for the efficient use of agriculture department land throughout the province.
The committee will get feedings from all the entities who demanded the acquisition of agriculture land for the establishment of their own required facilities. The committee will also submit recommendations after studying the available land of the agriculture department and will determine different dimensions of the land and fulfil the needs of the agriculture sector.
The committee will also submit recommendations for planned urbanisation and raising of nurseries. The committee will also recommend the planned townships and the creation of health, education and other social services in the townships at all districts.
The chief minister reminded that the Chashma Lift Irrigation scheme would serve a key role for making hundreds of thousands of barren land cultivable. He directed all the departments to sketch out a complete design for the short term, the mid-term and long-term needs so that the government could take care of them.
The cabinet also agreed to release funds for the ADP funded projects, required for the provision of equipment in order to make these projects fully functional. The cabinet also approved the amendment in the KP Sugarcane and Sugar – Beet Development Cess Rules 2015 making the DDAC chairman of the respective district as the member of the committee.
The cabinet also agreed to the equal distribution of resources of district Karak budget, linking it to the guidelines of the planning and development department. There would be no en-block allocations, no disparity and justifiable schemes with the planning and development guidelines.
The cabinet reconstituted the committee for the Bannu Sugar Mills. The chief secretary would head the committee. The law minister and revenue minister would be the members of the committee to submit recommendations for the legal way out.
