117 regular handicraft centres operational in KP.

PESHAWAR -- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was told on Friday that the Department of Social Welfare and Special Education launched 125 handicraft centers under a scheme in the annual development program in 2014-15, with a total of Rs 301.128 million.

In a written reply, the KP assembly was informed that in the centers, 210 women were hired on contract basis for a period of five year, while 12,350 females were trained in different skills.

In 2019-20, the scheme was removed from the ADP, but next year, the authorities approved the project under a non-ADP scheme with a total cost of Rs 99.645 million. At present, there are 117 handicraft centres in different districts of the province.

To another question, Minister for Minorities Affairs Wazirzada told the House that the provincial government was implementing a five percent quota for minorities in government jobs and...