PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwagovernmenthasannounced that all the media persons working in Peshawar will be provided residential plots in the Peshawar Model Town, a mega development project.

The announcement was made by Dr Amjad Ali Khan, special assistant to the chief minister, while briefing journalists at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) the other day. Housing department secretary engineer Zahid Arif explained salient features of the mega housing scheme and said that 1,100 kanals had been allocated for the journalists in the project.

He shared details of the project with the media persons and said that advertisements would soon be floated to attract foreign builders for the project so that it could be completed within the shortest possible time. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak wanted the project to be completed soon.

Dr Amjad said that the provincial govern-ment was determined to provide quality residential facilities to the journalists and it could be possible only in the proposed Peshawar Model Town. He said that it was a mega scheme where about 0.8 million people would get accommodation.

All the main government departments, including the provincial assembly, secretariat, MPAs hostel, media enclave, hospitals, educational institutions and sports complex, would be established there. He said that it would be in fact a new Peshawar, adding that the government wanted to establish it in order to overcome the problems pertaining to rising population and lack of accommodation facilities for public and government employees.

On this occasion, PPC president Syed Bukhar Shah and its Media Colony chairman Riaz Khan Daudzai told the media persons that they were in constant contact with relevant officials of the provisional government to materialise the plan of media enclave at the earliest. Bureau Report