NO DELAY IN THIS REGARD WOULD BE TOLERATED SINCE THE PROJECT HAS CONSIDERABLY BEEN DELAYED

NO DELAY IN THIS REGARD WOULD BE TOLERATED SINCE THE PROJECT HAS CONSIDERABLY BEEN DELAYED

Islamabad: Pervaiz Khan Khattak, Federal Minister for Defense/chairman steering committee on CRBC has directed WAPDA to complete the feasibility of Chasma Right Bank Canal Project (CRBC) project within Nine month as this project is vital for agricultural development of KPK province. He said that this project would be directly beneficial for irrigating 2,60,000 acres of barren land in KPK and this project should be treated as special project. He said that the project had already been delayed considerably and no delay in this regard would be tolerated. He expressed these views while chairing the first meeting of the Steering Committee on CRBC in the Parliament house today. The constitution of the steering Committee was approved Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser to review the progress of CPEC related Projects in KPK.Special Assistant to Prime Minister Arbab Shahzad said that official bottle necks would not be tolerated in this case as this project already has taken a lot of time to get its feasibility approved. He also sought Monthly progress report about time line of the projects. Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgat Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur also remarked that this project be treated as special project and feasibility of this project be prepared at the earliest so the project be started the next year.The meeting was attended by Federal Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Chairman CPEC standing Committee Mr. Shair Ali Arbab, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Arbab Shazad Minister for Finance KPK Mr. Taimur Saleem Jhagra, MNA Mr. Yaqoob Sheikh, Additional Chief Secretary KPK and other Senior officers of Federal and Provincial departments WAPDA, Irrigation and Finance also attended the meeting .