ISLAMABAD: In a shot to speed up work on sluggish foreign-funded development systems in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the civil government has decided to keep a physical check on their progress through satellite- grounded monitoring.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC), which had taken up the issue of foreign-funded systems (FFPs) being enforced by the governments of both businesses.
The meeting was chaired by Economic Affairs Minister Omar Ayub Khan and attended by KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, among others.
The minister told the actors that a “ trio” or three-rounded approach would be espoused to cover these systems, which would number physical progress verification through the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission’s (Suparco) satellites, fiscal shadowing and prioritisation of fast- moving systems over slow- moving bones, and the use of Gantt maps to track design timelines and insure timely completion of crucial pretensions.
Of 34 foreign-funded schemes in KP, three are‘ problematic’and seven‘ incompletely satisfactory’.
He hoped the measures would help make systems’ covering more effective and therefore insure smooth perpetration.
The profitable affairs clerk told the NCC that 34 foreign-funded systems were under perpetration by the KP government for which the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Union, World Bank, China, France, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and the United States had handed$3.651 bn.
The meeting noted that NCP’s sweats had helped ameliorate systems’ perpetration by the parochial government, as the number of problematic systems had dropped to three from six a time ago. Also, the number of “ incompletely satisfactory” systems had also come down from 11 to seven.
It was decided that the remaining systems would also be nearly covered in line with their set timelines and all impediments would be removed.
While reviewing the ADB- funded Access to Clean Energy Investment Programme, the KP government reported that out of the seminaries, solar installations had been installed in seminaries. The remaining seminaries will be completed by the end of June.
Also, 53 health units had been solarised, whereas contracts for the remaining 134 health units had been awarded and work was under progress.
Under themicro-hydropower factory (MHPP) element, 287 MHPPs have been installed while installation for the remaining 411 is under way.
The commission also reviewed the progress on Pehur high- position conduit extension design, for which the ADB has committed$86.41 million.
The design — which will profit people after completion — aims to develop a new irrigated area of over hectares (around 21565 acres) in Swabi and Nowshera sections located in the middle-east of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in which water coffers for agrarian product were presently dependent on downfall only.
The commission also reviewed the progress of foreign-funded systems by Balochistan’s government. The meeting was informed that 12 foreign-funded systems amounting to$ 509m were presently under perpetration in the fiefdom. Of them, two were problematic and four systems were incompletely satisfactory.
The commission especially concentrated on the problematic systems — the ADB- funded Balochistan Water Coffers Development Project worth$ 102m, and the World Bank- funded Balochistan Water Management and Community Support Project worth$ 110m.
The meeting directed the officers concerned to resoluteness all the backups and speed up work on these systems.
