Mirpur gets Rs 5.5 billion uplift projects

Mirpur: Under an extensive development package to ameliorate the living standard of the common man, development projects worth over Rs 5.50 billion have been launched in Mirpur district under the spirit to raise the living standard of the people through providing latest means of communications and civic amenities close to their doorsteps, official sources said.

The sources said that development targets relating to various projects launched by Mangla Dam Resettlement Organisation, local government, public health engineering, highway, building division, electricity departments and the civic institutions in the division will be completed within stipulated period set separately for each project.

An effective and comprehensive system was also being introduced to monitor the pace of development works in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The AJK government has recently directed the officials of the nation building departments to focus for ensuring the quality of the development works side by side pace of their execution.

The AJK administration has particularly advised the departments that the public exchequer should be spent on the national and public interest-oriented projects coupled with the quality development work which could always be remembered to the coming generations.

According to the official sources, funds were available for the development projects in Azad Kashmir. The sources said that under a policy determined by the newly formed AJK government of Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Ahmed Khan, the accountability system in AJK would be further improved.

They said that under the proposed monitoring system to assess the pace of the construction work on the development projects, the divisional commissioners and the deputy commissioners, who have been given the additional charge as heads of the civic and development institutions in all eight AJK districts, would undertake inspections of the work in progress in their respective divisions.

They would submit their development reports to the government regularly. The AJK government has also directed the officers to monitor the pace and quality of the development works by making frequent visits of the projects in the field launched by their respective departments.