Muhammad Javed Malik
* Construction of 660 km of link roads worth 20 billion rupees under the New Kashmir Development Program. * Improvement and opening of 15 km of new link road and 5 km of already constructed roads out of 20 km roads in all constituencies of Azad Kashmir. * In re-feasibility of Muzaffarabad-Mirpur-Kashmir Highway, reduced from 55 billion to 41 billion, PC One is ready. *Kashmir Highway will prove to be a game changer project in connecting Azad Kashmir districts.
* E-tendering for government projects. *11 entry points of the main highway connecting Pakistan to Azad Kashmir will be established at eight stations. * Plans to build Tall Plaza in Azad Kashmir * Issuance of building code and use of modern technical means for landslides. *Improvement of defense roads of LoC *Correcting dilapidated and incomplete buildings. * Quality Assurance Control and Value Engineering Control for construction standards in Azad Kashmir. *Reconditioning of all the major bridges of Azad Kashmir Mangla, Gulpur, Arja, Hattian, Lipa bridges and other roads. *Construction of connecting roads with main roads and implementation of road safety to prevent accidents. *Improvement and development of Khuerta Mirpoor Road. *Beautifying the entrances and exits of Azad Kashmir, developing tourist attractions and promoting health tourism. *Determination to complete the pending mega project of Mangala Dam Raising Project Rathoa Hariyam.
*Establishment of Mirpur industrial zone for industrial revolution in Azad Kashmir and foundation stone of dry port at a cost of Rs.81 crore 58 lakh 64 thousand. * Strategy to establish railway track and railway office in Mirpur, *Rehabilitation of sick industrial units and decision to set up cottage industries in every district *Enabling the Investment Board, *Decision to train 1200 people for cottage industry from Punjab. *Construction of airport with the support of public private partnership *Making airport of Muzaffarabad and Rawalkot functional. *Azad Kashmir obtains license for its own airline. *Establishment of Medical and Technical Universities *Establishment of Dental Colleges in Kotli and Bagh *Establishment of Military College in Bagh, Establishment of Khairta Cadet College *Establishment of Cardiac Unit in Dadial, *Telemedicine Centers for health sector development *Digitization of Resident State and Domicile *Establishment of Rahmatul Ulamain Authority in *Azad Kashmir, notification of recitation of Durood Ibrahimi after recitation in official functions. *Provision of free electricity to mosques, establishment of Quran Academies in Muzaffarabad, Rawalkot and Mirpur. *Decision to make Zakat 36 thousand instead of 3 thousand per year among those entitled to zakat. * The amount of dowry fund has been increased from 12 thousand to 60 thousand. *Increase in the living allowance of the refugees.
* Enumeration and Panchayat system, to restore finance. *Establishment of Journalism Academy for the promotion of positive journalism. *20 crores for advertising department for the development of state media. *For the first time, Rs 5 crore has been allocated in the budget for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Press Foundation. * 3 crore rupees for the welfare of journalists and the heirs of deceased journalists. *Allocation of funds of Rs. 3 crore for digital and social media. * For the first time, Rs. 50 lakh has been set aside for the welfare of newspaper vendors. *Clean all the cities of Azad Kashmir, end encroachments, install street lights, * Upgradation of Karjai Fort and Historical Museum * Establishment of Information and Technology Zone for the development of IT in Azad Kashmir. After the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan assumed power, to highlight the Tehreek-e-Insaf narrative for the construction and development of the state and to improve the quality of life of the people, the establishment of good governance for the system of governance of Azad Kashmir. For the welfare of the people of the region, exemplary construction and development, provision of social justice, restoration of merit, along with the promotion of tourism in Azad Kashmir, as well as the construction and improvement of main roads, bridges throughout Azad Kashmir, are the revolutionary measures which are the fruits of which. Will begin to reach the masses. The current government of Azad Kashmir Tehreek-e-Insaf has taken revolutionary steps in the communication sector like other sectors to provide travel facilities in Azad Kashmir and to achieve hundred percent results of this goal, Azad Kashmir Minister of Communications and Public Works Ama Chaudhry. The way this sector is progressing under the leadership of Azhar Sadiq, it will bring about a revolution in the economic development of the region along with the construction and development of the region.
As Azad Kashmir is a hilly and difficult region, but this region is the most beautiful and beautiful region in the world, which has a great potential for hydel and tourism. They want to make Azad Kashmir a center of tourism in the true sense, for which they are trying to make Azad Kashmir’s road infrastructure ideal and road safety arrangements to keep it safe from accidents. And all the roads of Azad Kashmir continued to run normally during the rainy season. Even in the areas of heavy snowfall, traffic continued on 80% of the roads. The Prime Minister identified the defects in the development plans in Communications and Public Works of Azad Kashmir and set up a separate unit in line with modern requirements including quality assurance control and value engineering to remedy the problems. Establishment, timely preparation of development plans, fixing time for completion of administrative approval process and teaching of QA/QC and Value Engineering as a subject in all engineering universities of the state are also directed. Similarly, the Chief Engineer has also instructed to shift the office of the Communications and Public Works Department (South) to Mirpur. Rathoa Hariyam Bridge, which was delayed for a long time due to its length of only 160 meters, has decided to set up a high-level committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary Azad Kashmir to complete the project within a year and coordinate all the issues. The government established under the leadership of Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan in the recent budget allocated a huge amount of Rs. 12 billion for the development and improvement of communication means in the year 2022-23 while under the “New Kashmir Development Program” in all the constituencies.
In particular, they are constructing 660 km of connecting roads worth more than 20 billion rupees. Muzaffarabad Mirpur Kashmir Highway was a long-standing demand of the people of Azad Kashmir. PC One has been prepared to build this project by reducing 14 billion rupees to 41 billion rupees in spite of severe inflation and huge increase in prices and it has a link from all the districts to reach Mirpur, so the travel distance will be less in coming and going to the capital. It will play an important role in making the side attractive. Prime Minister Jhanu has decided to set his government’s priorities as well as implement economic and economic development projects in a timely manner, stop the indiscriminate use of government resources and spend these resources for the welfare of the people, the enforcement of law and order and He kept the supremacy of merit in his priorities.There he brought reforms in many other sectors which benefited the common people and started getting facilities and privileges. Introduction of e-tendering for transparent and merit tendering in constructions in Azad Kashmir, provinces of Pakistan. Decisions were made to build weight stations at 11 entry points of the main roads connecting Azad Kashmir with Road Safety. Set up vote stations on them. Similarly, reconditioning of all the major bridges of Azad Kashmir including Mangla, Gulpur, Arjah, Hattian and Lipa bridges and other roads, improvement of defense roads of LoC, construction of Tall Plaza are under consideration. In the last quarter of the previous fiscal year, the federal government did not provide funds, thus the full amount was not provided in the first quarter of the budget of the current fiscal year. Due to which the completed projects of the previous year were not paid.
There was no concept of quality control and quality assurance to build high and standard roads and buildings in Azad Kashmir. Minister of Public Works and Communications Chaudhry Azhar Sadiq said that the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan is a politician with a big vision who after assuming power, along with exemplary construction and development across the state, established good governance and tourism throughout Azad Kashmir. It has taken practical steps to make it a real cradle of development. Improvement and maturity of Azad Kashmir’s roads is also its important link. He had to start the process in June 2022 for the construction of communication roads in all the constituencies of Azad Kashmir. Now, according to the new rates, the government will spend a whopping sum of Rs 20 billion to build 660 km of roads across Azad Kashmir. The federal government will not provide funds for the last fourth quarter due to which the development process of Azad Kashmir was badly affected and the contractors could not be paid for the work done after the recent budget of the first quarter of this year. For this reason, the federal government has released only 10 percent of the funds, which can seriously affect the development process. He said that due to non-availability of funds from the federal government, mega projects.
All the communication roads of Azad Kashmir will be funded not on political basis but specifically on equal basis to government and opposition on equal footing. He said that Triple M Mansehra, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur Mangala Road, which was estimated at Rs 55 billion in the previous period, Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan also made use of the road infrastructure built within Azad Kashmir. Feasibility has been done again, which has been reduced from 55 billion to 41 billion rupees, the PC-1 has been prepared. This project will save about 14 billion rupees and will start when the funds are received from the federal government. Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan, according to the vision of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, highlighted the struggle for independence of the occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir on the international stage and established the supremacy of law and constitution and good governance in the base camp. Keeping it as one of the main priorities of the government, presented a historic people-friendly budget of Rs. One trillion 63 crore rupees.From which Azad Kashmir.
By constructing and upgrading quality roads in remote mountainous areas, the tourism activities in the region will also improve further. Annual income of billions will be expected from the development of tourism. During the government of Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan, 15% increase in the salaries of government employees, establishment of Rahmatul Ulmeen/ Khatamul Nabin Authority, establishment of Mirpur Medical University, Special Economic Zone, Mirpur Dry Port, Quran Academies in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Bhambar. 28 billion 50 crore rupees will be allocated in the budget for the development projects of Azad Kashmir, including the establishment of a technical college in Dadyal, 20 billion rupees for the development of electricity, 60 crore for the promotion of tourism. And the government is taking important steps to provide the necessary facilities. We also pay tribute to Finance Minister Abdul Majid Khan for presenting a people-friendly budget for the financial year 2022-23 under the leadership of the Prime Minister in the Tehreek-e-Insaf government. Abundant amount of development and non-development funds have been kept for the unallocated construction and development of Azad Kashmir.
In this way, increasing Zakat funds, increasing dowry funds from 11 thousand to 75 thousand rupees, doubling the living allowance of refugees, providing free electricity to mosques, making forest and IT employees permanent, recruiting 200 new employees for the promotion of tourism. Funds will also be allocated for the development of all other departments including creating 300 posts for tourism police. The ideal and people-friendly policies of the government will raise the standard of living of the people along with the development of the state, which will also provide employment facilities in the region. Encouraging people to set up industries so that they can get better employment opportunities, the Prime Minister has set a new example by deciding not to take monthly salary and allowances as Prime Minister and giving a formal notification. The Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir has given 5 crores to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Press Foundation, which was created for the first time for the welfare of journalists, for the promotion of journalism in Azad Kashmir, 20 crores to the advertisement department of the Information Department, and 20 crores to the deceased journalists of the Press Foundation.Three crores for the financial assistance of heirs, Rs. 3 crores for digital and social media, and Rs. 50 lakhs for the welfare of newspaper vendors for the first time. In this way, press clubs and journalists’ colonies will also be built.
According to his vision, the Prime Minister has also given instructions to plan the future needs of all the major cities of Azad Kashmir, to make the cities of Azad Kashmir clean. Thousands of tons of garbage were collected and destroyed on the instructions of the Municipal Corporation and the committee for cleaning, wall chalking, removal of encroachments, clearing of footpaths, installation of street lights and sanitation. Carry out basic sanitation and national plantations in their respective districts and cities to help tackle environmental challenges. This will make the city look clean and beautiful and will also be environment friendly. The Prime Minister has given instructions to all the institutions to maintain office and financial discipline and use the government resources properly, there will be no compromise on the quality and speed of development projects. Institutions should play their full key role in providing the basic needs of the people, the self-esteem of the foreigners, especially the overseas, elderly and women should be taken care of and they should be treated with respect and dignity. Under the current government policy, officers should now Instead of saying “Sir”, the officers will call those who come to their offices “Sir”. Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has also decided a comprehensive strategy for the unity and solidarity of his workers and the party, in which all the problems are solved with the mutual consultation of the party officials, the parliamentary committee and the members of the cabinet. Because of the Tehreek-e-Insaaf government in Azad Kashmir, there is no problem of any kind of political crisis.
But still some projects are suffering from delays, but we are working with dedication to fulfill the comments we have made from the public.