PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has ordered creation of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Unit under the Directorate of Projects, Fata Secretariat, as a separate unit and as an administrative arrangement, said a handout issued here on Thursday.

The unit will perform a number of functions with regard to rehabilitation and reconstruction in the crisis-affected areas of Fata that included preparation of strategies and development plans for implementation in the affected areas of Fata, planning and coordinating the overall reconstruction and rehabilitation effort and provision of onewindow facilitation to the international and national development partners.

It will also monitor the implementing agencies, establish standards and internal controls within and outside the unit and will be responsible for all the projects proposed under the various support funds created by the government, national and international partners.

Besides, it will provide the requisite ease, speed, facilitation, coordination and supervision to the re-construction and rehabilitation programmes and linkages to all the parties involved in and helping the government in its endeavour to rehabilitate the affected areas and also offer a fast track approval process for the projects and activities undertaken for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the affected areas. The director general, Fata Secretariat, has been nominated as an overall in charge of the unit.