CM directs for completing pre-requisites to ensure ground breaking of CIP by year end.

PESHAWAR -- Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the quarters concerned to complete all the pre-requisites and preparations in order to ensure formal ground breaking of Cities Improvement Project (CIP) by the end of this year stating that provision of improved municipal services and other facilities to citizens is one of the top priorities of the provincial government.

He was presiding over a meeting held here on Thursday to review progress made so far on Cities Improvement Project.

It merits a mention here that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is going to launch a project to improve and strengthen municipal infrastructures and services in order to improve the quality of life of citizens in five big cities of the province including Peshawar, Kohat, Abbottabad, Mardan and Swat.

'Citizens Improvement Project' CIP is being launched with the financial assistance of Asian Development Bank under which a number of schemes would be executed in the selected cities to improve municipal services through enhanced municipal infrastructure and strengthened institutional capacities of municipal set ups in these cities.

While expressing satisfaction on the progress made so far on the project, the Chief Minister directed the concerned authorities to complete the detailed engineering designs of all sub projects under CIP so that practical work on these projects could be initiated as soon as possible.

Member Provincial Assembly Fazale Hakim Khan, Principal Secretary to CM Shahab Ali Shah, administrative secretaries of concerned departments, Project Director KP Cities Improvement Project and other relevant officials attended the meeting.

The meeting was briefed in details about the progress made so far and was told that topographic and geo-tech survey and preliminary designs of all the sub projects to be launched in these cities under the CIP have been completed whereas preparation of detailed engineering designs and PC-1 of these projects is in progress that would also be completed by the end of this month.

The meeting was further informed that...