LAHORE: Around 6,080 ongoing development projects worth Rs550 billion across the province can improve the living standard of a common man by bringing about an economic revolution in the province, said experts and economists on Saturday. They said that the development projects/schemes were self-explanatory precedents of standard, transparency and high speed. Officials in the Punjab Planning and Development Department (P&DD) said that during the first half of the current financial year 2017-18, Rs282 billion under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) had been released for implementation of 6,080 development projects across the province. Numerous mega welfare schemes were also being carried out at a fast pace, they added. Prominent economist Ashfaq Hussain said that the Punjab government was paying special attention to the development of different sectors.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2017.
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