PESHAWAR: The Provincial Minister for Local Government, Meena Khan Afridi, has ordered the authorities to accelerate the work on the Peshawar Smart City projects to ensure the timely development of the provincial capital.
During a high-level meeting chaired by Meena Khan Afridi at the Local Government Secretariat, the members of the National and Provincial Assemblies from Peshawar were also in attendance.
Representatives of the Local Government, Construction & Communications, Irrigation, and Public Health Engineering Departments informed the meeting about the various stages of the implementation of the Smart City project. Among the issues that they discussed were sanitation, drainage, road expansion, flood control, waste management, clean drinking water, parks, underpasses, vegetable markets, and bus stands. The involvement of the members of the provincial assembly in giving their suggestions for the plan was also acknowledged by the officials.
Some of the key decisions made in the meeting were:
Relocating illegal vegetable markets to new places to enhance the flow of traffic and cleanliness.
Introducing a small charge for the use of facilities in city parks.
Submitting plans for slaughterhouses and cemeteries as part of the Smart Social and Cultural Component.
Fixing the tube wells that have been out of use to enhance the water supply network.
He also stated that it should not take much time for them to prepare the plans, drawings, and reports. As per his view, the key objective of the project is to transform Peshawar into a contemporary city having the latest facilities. Additionally, it should be mentioned that she declared emphatically that serving the city is the shared responsibility of everyone.
Furthermore, the minister spoke of the positive change in Peshawar being very clear by June 2026 and that the local MNAs and MPAs whose voices would be heard most probably, will be taken into consideration carefully.
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