Archive for December 20, 2008

ایگری بزنس ڈ ولپمنٹ پروجیکٹ اور ٹیکنیکل ایجوکیشن کے مابین تربیتی مراکز کے لیے معاہدہ

 

Accord for training centres signedایگری بزنس ڈ ولپمنٹ پروجیکٹ اور ٹیکنیکل ایجوکیشن کے مابین تربیتی مراکز کے لیے معاہدہ

The News | Saturday, December 20, 2008

By By our correspondent 

PESHAWAR: The Agribusiness Development and Diversification Project and Technical Education and Manpower on Friday signed an agreement to launch new courses in commerce colleges and vocational training centres in NWFP.

“Under the project, to be supervised by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MINFAL), institutions of those areas have been selected where potential crops have more production capacity,” a statement issued here said.

The project has selected commerce colleges of Dera Ismail Khan, Peshawar, Chitral and Thana areas to train the growers and traders in various crops including dates, potatoes and oranges.

“The programme is aimed at raising awareness among the farmers and traders and all the principals and faculty members of the aforementioned colleges have been trained in the agribusiness,” the statement added.

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Chitral to be linked via Torkham-Jalalabad F.P. Report

The Frontier Post, 20 Dec. 2008

Chitral to be linked via Torkham-Jalalabad F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: NWFP Minister for Population Welfare Saleem Khan on Friday disclosed that a case with the Federal Government has been taken up to link Chitral with the rest of the country via Torkham-Jalalabad during winter season. He express the confidence that approval to this project would be given by the Afghan government within the next few days. The minister said that a degree college and water supply scheme costing Rs. 50 million have been approved for Tehsil Drosh in Chitral in the current ADP. He disclosed that a survey team would soon be undertaking a survey of the area for the establishment of water supply scheme. Talking to a delegation of councilors from Tehsil Drosh led by Union Council Nazim Haider Abbas that called on him at his office the othe day, he said that equal importance is being given to all areas in PF-89 in the developmental projects without any discriminations. He castigated the propaganda unleashed by political rivals and called it ‘‘propaganda for the sake of propaganda’’. Saleem Khan clarified that he was making all possible efforts at every level for the development of all the areas of Chitral irrespective of political and other affiliations and in a short span of ten months he has undertaken and completed numerous developmental schemes in Chitral that could not be done in the last five years. Members of the delegation apprised the minister of the problems of their respective area, to which the minister assured that all the major problems of the area including education, health, water would be solved on priority basis.

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