PESHAWAR: President Dr Arif Alvi stressed upon need to undertake financially sustainable and viable development projects, besides reducing pilferage in government departments’ expenditures to enhance efficiency and reduce financial burden on governments. He said that better planning and implementation of development projects by trained and qualified development professionals could help improve overall service delivery in country and help meet people’s expectations.

During a briefing on development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) at Governor House President said that better financial controls and enhanced accountability of government departments would help improve efficiency and efficacy of development projects, besides help reduce financial burden on national and provincial exchequers. He appreciated development activities undertaken by provincial government in KP and highlighted need to overcome gap between people’s expectations and service delivery.

He said that necessary infrastructure and basic facilities, particularly in health and educational sectors, needed to be commensurate with people’s needs, adding that better planning and implementation of development projects could help meet supply-demand gap. He highlighted need to focus on prevention of diseases, both communicable and non-communicable diseases, adding that overall disease burden could be reduced by adopting necessary precautionary measures and healthy living.

This, he said, would help reduce burden on government health infrastructure and save precious resources. He said that Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms could be adopted in newly-merged districts (NMDs) of KP to provide speedy and timely redressal to people’s grievances in those areas. During meeting, President was briefed about different development projects undertaken by KP government and overall law and order situation in province. It was highlighted that since inception of Sehat Cards in KP, 1.5 million patients had availed treatment facilities worth almost Rs 27 billion in different hospitals of KP.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 10 2022

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