ISLAMABAD: The federal government had released over 482 billion rupees till 10th of this month under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). According to the Ministry of Planning and Development, 150 billion rupees have been released for different road projects while over 118 billion rupees to WAPDA during the period. Likewise, over twenty-four billion rupees have been provided for Railway projects and over seventeen billion rupees to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission for its projects.
During this period, about fifty-two billion rupees have been released for the Temporarily Displaced Persons. Over thirty billion rupees were given for Special Areas, including AJK, Gilgit-Baltistan, SAFRON and FATA for development purposes. Similarly, twenty billion rupees have been released for Prime Minister’s Global Sustainable Development Goals achievement programme and about eight billion rupees for Prime Minister’s Youth and Hunermand Programme.
