Progra­mme will be extend­ed to six more distri­cts of the provin­cePESHAWAR: Buoyed by the success of its first phase, the provincial government on Thursday launched the second phase of its community-driven local development (CDLD) programme, expanding it to 12 districts of the province. An official ceremony to launch the second phase was held in Peshawar on Thursday where Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak inaugurated the project. He highlighted that the K-P local government system where powers were transferred to the grassroots. “The CDLD programme has empowered the people and the process of community involvement has brought citizens and government closer. As many as 23,000 applications were received from the community for their projects of which 4,062 projects worth Rs5.1 billion were approved.

Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2018 06:00 UTC