PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs 460 million for 33 projects of Social Welfare, Special Education and Women Development in Annual Development Program 2017-18.
During his budget speech in the KPK assembly in Peshawar, the Finance Minister Muzaffar Said Advocate said that 390 million has been allocated for 21 ongoing projects while the remaining 70 million rupees has been earmarked for 12 new projects.
He said that steps would also be initiated by the government to provide facilities of technical education to orphans and destitute women in welfare centers, stipends for physically challenged and senior citizens and treatment of addicts.
He said that school would be established for deaf and mute children, purchase of land for providing treatment to drug addicts in Swat, provision of secondary education in Special Education Schools in Divisional Headquarters of the province, establishment of (Bolo) helpline to stop gender based violence, Darul Aman in Chitral, rehabilitation and training centers for transgender community and establishment of vocational centers in Nowshera, Mardan, Haripur, Shangla and Charsadda.
