Investor Presentaiton
FINANCING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
3.3
Kaghan Development
Authority Act, 2020
The Kaghan Development Authority (KDA) is
responsible for devising all development works
and embedding other measures in the
objective of environmental upgradation,
tourism development, housing schemes and
uplift of the local community. As part of its
mandate the authority can collect levies, fees,
taxes and user-charges with respect to the
services and facilities made available to the
public, including fee or charges on account of
conservancy, maintenance of public parks,
green belts and green areas or facilities within
the region. Some relevant taxes collected by
the authority include local taxes on services,
toll/road tax and conservancy fee (for detailed
schedule see Appendix B19).
With the establishment of KPCTA and
independently administered ITZs along with
Authorities like KDA and GDA and the
proposed upper Swat Development Authority,
there is likely to be an overlap of jurisdiction in
terms of both revenue collection and in
planning and development of the tourist areas.
Also, other departments of the province such a
Forestry, Environment and Wildlife still exercise
significant regulatory powers over these areas.
This overlap and lack of clarity of jurisdiction
was acknowledged by the relevant officials in
the stakeholder meetings. Their view was that
as most of these authorities, with the sole
exception of GDA, are new, it will take some
time to develop and define jurisdictions and
improve inter departmental coordination.
19The Kaghan Development Authority Act (2020).
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