‘Uplift schemes worth Rs595 billion launched in Pindi’

Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatha Monday said a total of 711 schemes worth Rs595.297 billion under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2022-23 were launched in the Rawalpindi Division.

The commissioner in a meeting with the officers of the 33rd Senior Management Course, Inland Study Tour gave a detailed briefing on the profile of the division to the officers.

Additional Commissioner Coordination, Syed Nizarat Ali, Additional Commissioner Revenue, Kinza Murtaza, Director Development Nazia Sudhan, Director Local Government, Director Health Dr Ansar, Director Colleges Sher Ahmed Satti and other officers concerned attended the meeting.

Rawalpindi is a division of four districts covering 22,991 square kilometres, he said and added that the total population of Rawalpindi is 10.884 million. 105 were new schemes launched under ADP, 2022-23 while 606 were ongoing projects, he said adding, 157 projects had been completed and 37.544 per cent budget released by the government had been utilised on the schemes.

The Mother and Child Care Hospital worth Rs5.32 billion is among the prominent schemes of the Health Department in Rawalpindi Division, he said. Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Transplantation (RIUT) worth Rs5.166 billion is another important project launched in the division with a 60-bed hospital being constructed on Chakri Road, Rawalpindi, he added.

Two other projects, a 50-bed Trauma Centre in Jhelum district and a Trauma Centre in Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan were also being completed, he said adding, the University of Chakwal worth Rs1.5 billion is among the prominent schemes of the Education Department.

Educational Complex in District Attock, Centre of Excellence in District Chakwal and Educational Complex in District Rawalpindi were also undergoing in the division.

Divisional Public Schools had also been started in all the districts of the division, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 4^th, 2023.