Opinion: Ongoing projects can improve standards

Around 6,080 ongoing development projects are underway in Punajb

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 31^st, 2017.

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