CM forms panel on Malakand land settlement issues.

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Saturday decided to set up a commission headed by a senior member of the board of revenue to look into the issues, especially the people's grievances, about land settlement process in Malakand division.

Chairing the second meeting here on developmental schemes and people's issues in Malakand division, the chief minister said the commission would make workable recommendations to the government on the matter.

According to a statement issued here, Mr Mahmood directed the public health engineering department to take over all non-functional tubewells sunk by different organisations in the division and come up with a plan to make them functional.

He asked the higher education department to take necessary steps for the start of classes in all newly-established colleges across the province from the upcoming academic year.

The chief minister directed the communication and works departments to ensure the completion of development projects on time and without compromising quality and quantity of work.

He said the contractors found to be involved in substandard work would be blacklisted, while strict action would be taken against the relevant government officials in light of the monitoring and evaluation reports.

Cabinet members Shaukat Yousafzai, Riaz Khan, Shafiullah and Wazirzada, members of the provincial assembly from Malakand region, senior member of the board of revenue, secretaries of the relevant departments, representatives of the federal organisations, and other senior officials attended the meeting.

The officials told participants that 20 of the 66 decisions made in the last meeting regarding Malakand...

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