PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has imposed a ban on plastic bags and announced to launch an awareness campaign.
The CM directed the authorities concerned to involve elected councillors and community members in the process. The ban will be implemented after two months and during this period all stock of the plastic bags would be removed from markets and factories.
Pervez Khattak also issued orders to solve problems of PK-3 Peshawar during a meeting with a 25-member delegation from the constituency. He asked Wapda to remove electric poles and its other installations from the retrieved lands during the anti-encroachment drive in the interior city by August 20 and also complete electrification schemes of 34 public health tube wells in Peshawar.
The delegation, led by Gul Bacha Khan, called on the chief minister at CM’s House on Monday. MPA Yasin Khalil, Member District Council Younis Zaheer and officers of the district administration, police, and WAPDA were also present.
In response to the problems and demands presented by the delegation, Khattak ordered the PESCO authorities to prepare a weekly schedule of the power load shedding for Peshawar and inform the administration in advance.
