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28/04/2017

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak met a delegation of University Town Peshawar that comprised the owners of education, health and other private institutions

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak met a delegation of University Town Peshawar that comprised the owners of education, health and other private institutions as well as local residents at Chief Minister House Peshawar on Thursday. The delegation led by Nighat Orakzai MPA and thanked the Chief Minister for passing the bill allowing private and commercial entities for continuation of their activities. However the delegation complained of being pressurize forcing them to stop their routine activities. They lamented that such actions badly affected the children studying in schools and patients admitted in the local private hospitals. The Chief Minister in light of these complaints, asked the concerned authorities to settle the issues in larger public interest. He acknowledged that the health, education and other private and commercial centers were rendering valuable services in the residential area to cater the urgent needs of locals and hence the local dwellers must demonstrate the spirit of cooperation and broadmindedness in this regard. He underlined the need of close monitoring and regulating the commercial activities. Pervez Khattak acknowledged that problems and issues cropped up about commercial activities in University Town and Hayatabad due to ill-planning of the past but these were being specially checked in town planning of Regi Lalma model Town ship and other new residential areas of the province. He said that provincial government knew the importance of these commercial centers in residential area which besides essential services to the locals also provided jobs to hundreds of workforce. He said the government alone could not cater the education and health needs of all the population without these private institutions. He asked all the owners to submit detailed list of their institutions and centers with secretary local government for its proper management and regulation that would also help in sorting out their complaints for good in this regard, he concluded. <><><><><><><