Minister P&D applauds role of GIZ-RAHA Programme
- February 11, 2016, 8:44 pm
- National News
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Dr. Hamid Khan Achakzai says agenda of
development being executed in province
HQ City Report
QUETTA: A delegation of GIZ-Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas (RAHA) programme called on the Provincial Minister for Planning and Development, Dr. Hamid Khan Achakzai here the other day.
Also present in the meeting were the Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Naseebullah Khan Bazai, Chief of Sections, Babar and Mujeebur Rehman.
Talking to the delegation, the Minister Planning and Development appreciated the projects being executed under the RAHA project in Balochistan. He went on to commend the projects terming them important.
The Minister on the occasion also referred to the initiatives taken for maintenance of law and order, elimination of corruption as well as for raising the living standard of common min in the province.
He said that the present government was mobilizing all available resources to ensure peace, eliminate corruption and raise the living standard of the masses. The development process was being carried out in districts on equal basis, he maintained.
However, we would need cooperation of the international donor agencies, financial institutions and investors to strengthen the development process further and make it sustainable, Dr. Hamid Khan Achakzai stressed.
He also pointed out towards the water crisis being faced by the province. He said that we are facing the issue of water shortage besides other issues being faced by the agriculture, livestock and irrigation departments in the province.
He stressed that the technical and financial assistance of world donor agencies is direly needed on the emergent basis for resolving the issue of water.
The Minister Planning and Development on the occasion referred to the potential of youth in the province saying that we take the youth as asset. The issue of unemployment would be resolved by creating the vast opportunities of unemployment, adding he pledged.
He also thanked the assistance extended by Giz-RAHA and expressed the hope that rather more cooperation would be needed for well-being of the Afghan refugees settled in the districts bordering with Afghanistan.
Needless to mention here is that the GIZ has been working in Pakistan on behalf of the German Government, mainly the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA).
On behalf of the AA, GIZ began supporting the RAHA programme in 2009. As RAHA is now an integral part of the SSAR-Pakistan, the scope of GIZ’s services was also broadened to include support for implementation of the SSAR as a whole. Since 2012, therefore, the programme has been providing advice and management support to the Government of Pakistan, as a direct contribution to the second and third pillars of the SSAR - Pakistan.
