Govt allocates Rs1.4b for 13 law ministry schemes

The federal government has allocated a total of Rs1,400 million for 10 ongoing and three new schemes of the law ministry under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2023-24.

As per the budgetary documents released on Friday, the government allocated Rs160 million for ongoing scheme of automation of federal tribunals phase II; Rs43 million for archiving and digitalisation of legislation and record of the law ministry; Rs550 million for the construction of Islamabad High Court legal facilitation centre and Rs51.999 million for strengthening Planning and Monitoring Unit in the law ministry.

Similarly, the government specified Rs223.412 million for the ongoing scheme of new building construction for Supreme Court’s Karachi registry and Rs38 million for strengthening and capacity enhancement of legal wings of law ministry and other federal ministries.

Funds reserved for construction of federal courts complexes in Peshawar and Lahore were Rs26.969 million and Rs80 million, respectively while Rs60.888 million was allocated for construction of federal judicial academy Phase-II in H-8/4 Islamabad.

Likewise, the government allocated Rs16.90 million for a new scheme of construction of the offices of the attorney general for Pakistan, the prosecutor general and other allied offices in connection with the Supreme Court of Pakistan PC-II; Rs36.917 million for the acquisition of land for construction of federal tribunals complex and Rs82.930 million for establishment of ICT enabled libraries at the Federal Judicial Complex in Islamabad and Peshawar.