CM directs KP CTA to focus on promotion of tourism.

PESHAWAR -- Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan Sunday directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KP CTA) to fully focus on the promotion of tourism activities in the province.

He also directed that all the ongoing initiatives and activities should be completed as soon as possible to get full advantages of the tourism potential in the province and to achieve the goal behind the establishment of the authority in its real sense.

He issued these directives while chairing the 3rd meeting of the Board of Directors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority held here the other day, said an official handout issued here.

The meeting accorded approval to the budget estimates of authority for the current fiscal year and various other matters related to the authority and ongoing tourist activities in the province.

Provincial Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Amjad Ali Khan, Secretary Tourism Tahir Orakzai, Director General KPCTA Abid Khan Wazir and other members of the board attended the meeting.

The Chief Minister also directed for concrete steps to make the various PTDC units functional in different districts of the province and made it clear that all those PTDC units in which minor repair work has to be done, should be completed soon and such units should be made functional so that these units can be utilized for the facilitation of tourists during the current season.

While briefing the meeting about the progress regarding implementation of the decisions taken in the previous Board meeting, it was told that Tourism Police had been launched through transfer of the officers from police department and recruitment of 176 constables. Besides, Censorship of...