PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has directed the authorities concerned to chalk out a comprehensive and long term plan for protection of flood vulnerable areas of the province on permanent basis.
He issued the directives in a briefing on National Flood Protection Plan-IV at CM Secretariat Peshawar here on Tuesday morning. Minister for Irrigation Sikandar Hayat Sherpao, Secretary Irrigation Tariq Rasheed, Chief Engineer South Zahid Abbas and Chief Engineer North Mujahid Saeed attended the briefing.
The chief minister also directed the authorities to conduct a detailed survey about damages caused by devastating floods in 2010. He also ordered for devising a long term plan on the basis of damages incurred by floods of 2010. He said that mega protection project for flood was the only way to avoid devastation. Work on protective banks along Kabal and other rivers had already been started, he said.
He also directed raising protection walls of drains and canals to avoid flood damages, besides ordering protective measures in vulnerable districts of Swat, Chitral, Dir, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara and other areas.
