Info ministry to spend Rs30 million on Jinnah’s speeches

Information division gets Rs2 billion in PSDP

ISLAMABAD:

The Information and Broadcasting Division has received a significant allocation of Rs2 billion for its projects in the public sector development program (PSDP) for the next financial year.

This budget includes Rs1.54 billion for ongoing schemes and Rs454.6 million for new schemes.

According to the recently released PSDP 2023-24, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been allocated funds for various ongoing projects.

These include Rs35 million for phase one of the establishment of the Pakistan Information Center (PIC), Rs448.5 million for the Central Monitoring Unit (Islamabad) Directorate, and Rs32.5 million for off-electronic media publications.

Additionally, the publication project of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's speeches from 1906 to 1948 has been allotted Rs30.3 million. Another Rs379.4 million has been allocated to the National Information Media Archive Repository (Islamabad-Lahore Cyber Wing). Furthermore, Rs20.9 million has been earmarked for the restoration of media view services in Khairpur, Sindh, and Rs48.1 million has been allocated for the upgradation of the Central Board of Film Censors, Islamabad.

The upgradation of studios and master control rooms in Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation and PTV will receive Rs.154.9 million.

Meanwhile, Rs200 million has been set aside for the establishment of the National Film Production Institute in Islamabad.

In terms of new schemes, Rs546 million has been allocated for the terrestrial digitization of PTV through Chinese aid.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 12^th, 2023.