MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Kashmir Orphans Relief Trust (KORT), the South Asia’s largest rehabilitation and educational non-governmental organisation, has launched phase-III of the residential housing project exclusively meant for shelter-less widows, in Mirpur and other parts of the AJK.
The project worth Rs 193 million involves the construction of 82 residential houses on 3-5 marlas of lands, fully funded by the KORT in various parts of AJK, said a veteran UK-based British Kashmiri philanthropist Chaudhry Akhter Kashmir Wala while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the project on Monday.
AJK minister for Housing and Physical Planning Ch. Yasir Sultan inaugurated the project by distributing keys of the newly-constructed residential houses among the homeless widows in Kotli and Bhimber districts besides other parts of AJK.
Phase-4 of housing project
Kashmir Wala said that forthcoming Rs. 200 million phase-4 of the grand project involves 100 residential houses exclusively meant for homeless widows in various parts of AJK would be launched next month.
Expressing his gratitude to the donors for their generous support, the KORT Chairman said that nine more homes have been built and handed over to deserving widows in Koti and Bhimber.
“With the completion of the phase III, we are glade to provide 82 houses across the AJK.”
He said that generous contribution of the donors both at home and most particularly in the UK, was giving the most deserving families of shelter-less widows in AJK a fresh start.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Chairman KORT and the Country Director KORT Sardar Sajid Dilawer thanked the chief guest Minister Ch. Yasir Sultan, Justice (R) Azam Khan Former CJ AJK, Usman Khalid Mayor Mirpur, Ramzan Chughtai Deputy Mayor, Dr. Habib ur Rehman Former VC MUST, Aamir Nawabi Additional SP Mirpur, Malik Nisar Assistant Director Social welfare, Ch Zaheer former Chairman BISE Mirpur, Naheed Mughal, members of governing body of KORT, Muhammad Shakeel Station Director (Retd) AK Radio Mirpur, Ch. Muhammad Haneef Ex Chairman MDA, Prof Imtiaz Butt of MUST Varsity, Syed Abid Hussain Shah President Kashmir Press Club Mirpur, Altaf Hamid Rao founding member of the Governing Body of KORT for gracing the ceremony through their presence.
Ch. Akhter continued that the KORT was going very soon to launch construction work of 100 more houses for widows across AJK besides the construction of 500-bed state-of-the-art hospital in Mirpur for delivery of free quality medical treatment to the deserving poor and down trodden hailing from all three districts of Mirpur division.
