PESHAWAR: The planning and development department has developed an ambitious over Rs68 billion strategy to create employment opportunities in the merged tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Economic Development Plan (EDP) will focus on strengthening businesses, and mines and minerals, small and medium enterprise, skills development, tourism, agri-business and green economics sectors to create jobs in tribal districts.
According to the official documents available with Dawn, a comprehensive action plan will also be developed for tribal districts with a diversified range of interventions for all potential economic sectors by bridging capacity and resource gap.
It will have short-term, medium-term and long-term projects with…