Rs 24.489 billion released under PSDP for multiple projects

The Planning Commission has released a total of Rs 24,489.515 million against total allocation of Rs 102,304.807 million in annual Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2017-18 for various water and power projects so far.

According to the data of Planning Commission, a sum of Rs 23,008.461 million was released for water sector against total allocation of Rs. 36,750 million while Rs 1461.054 million was released against total 65,554.807 million for power projects.

An amount of Rs.10,000 million was released for Kachhi Canal Project, Rs.4225 million for Extension of Right Bank Outfall Drain from Sehwan to Sea, Rs 2,200 million for Remedial Measures to Control water logging (Muzaffargarh) and Rs.280 million for rehabilitation of Irrigation System in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

A sum of Rs 520 million was released for construction of small dams, delay actions dams (Sindh),  Rs 630 million for Lower Indus Right Bank Irrigation and Drainage Project (RBOD-I), Rs.280 million for Basool am (Gwadar), Rs 540 million for Channelization of Deg Nullah Punjab, Rs.840 million for Balochistan Effluent Disposal into RBOD-I (Jaffarabad), Rs.160 million each for construction of 20 small dams in KPK, Rs 160 million for Darwat Dam, Rs.260 million for Lining of Distributaries and Minor in Sindh, Rs 170.625 million for Makhi Farash Link Canal Project, Rs 260 million for Revamping of irrigation and drainage system of Sindh, according to APP.

Similarly, an amount of Rs397.232 million was released for electrification of union council in NA-50, Rs.229.101 million for electrcity schemes in district Mansehra and Abbottabad, Rs.500 million for electrification of various localities of Northern Lahore,  Rsa Rs.137.237 million for Installation of 50 solar tube wells in Balochistan and Rs100 million for supply of electricity to different location of NA-109 (Mandi Bahuddin).