KP allocates hefty amount for drinking water projects: Jhagra.

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra Friday informed that a hefty amount of Rs 830million has been allocated for projects related to clean drinking water supply across the province.

In his budget speech, the minister revealed that around Rs one billion would be spent on Jabba Dam in Khyber District while Rs 900 million were allocated for revamping irrigation system in the province.

He said Rs 700million would be spent on construction of water reservoirs in newly merged districts while Rs 640million would be spent on provision of clean drinking water to the people of merged areas.

In Mansehra, he said, a special project under Gravity Flow Water Supply Scheme would be started to provide sufficient amount of drinking water to areas in Hazara division.

Besides, he said, an...