The 11th Joint
Monitoring meeting held in the committee room of Irrigation Department, chaired
by Managing Director PIDA Captain (Rtd) Zahid Saeed to observe the progress on
PISIP-SIAP activities regarding water saving technologies and irrigation sector
reforms program.
The meeting was attended by the
Chief Advisor JICA Mr. Norio Kyono, Training Specialist Mr. Takashi Fujisaki, Technical
Advisor JICA Muhammad Aslam Qureshi, General Manager (TM) Mian Maqbol Ahmad, General
Manager (OP) Muhammad Younas Bhatti, General Manager (Finance) Malik Muhammad
Salim, Secretary PIDA Afzal Anjum Toor, Project Director PISIP Muhammad Ahmad
Usmani and other concerned officers.
The Chief Advisor JICA, while
briefing the project activities told that on the successful completion of water
saving technologies, the component has been closed while the capacity building
program for PIDA and Agriculture Department officers is underway. He told that
the purpose to launch the capacity building program was to develop, improve the
training material and operational references of FOs and AWBs. While describing
the project objectives, he emphasized upon the successful
introduction/promotion of water saving technologies in the main pilot areas of
the project.
The meeting also reviewed the
reasons of delay in FOs elections in LCC (W) AWB and decided to conduct the
same as early as possible. The MD PIDA directed the chief executives of LCC (W)
and Bahawalnagar AWBs to complete the elections of Jalwala and Pabbarwala FOs
without further delay and the General Manager (TM) will directly monitor the
elections process without any change in schedule.
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