LAHORE: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP)-Punjab has approved four development schemes of various sectors at an estimated cost of Rs19,995.533 million.
These schemes were approved in a meeting of PDWP presided over by Punjab Planning & Development Board Chairman Hamed Yaqoob Sheikh.
Provincial P&D Secretary Imran Sikandar Baloch, all members of the P&D Board, provincial secretaries of concerned departments, Senior Chief Coordinator Javed Latif, Assistant Chief Coordination Shahid Idrees and other senior representatives of the relevant provincial departments were also present on the occasion.
The approved development schemes included ‘construction of a distribution centre, rehabilitation of Old Jhal Khanuana Water Treatment Plant (Phase-I) in Faisalabad’ at a cost of Rs6.94 billion; ‘Covid-19 responsive and other natural calamities control programme’ at a cost of Rs10 billion; ‘feasibility studies of Mohar Lift Irrigation Scheme’ at a cost of Rs58.123 million; and ‘land acquisition for Jalalpur Irrigation Project’ at a cost revised cost of Rs2.98 billion.
The P&D Board chairman on the occasion emphasised the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that the Punjab government was committed to protecting citizens’ health by initiating such schemes and projects that were not only economical but also focused on the downtrodden segment of society.
