PDWP meeting: 10 development projects approved

Rs214.3 million approved for establishment of wildlife park at Jauharabad.

LAHORE:

The government on Wednesday approved 10 development schemes worth Rs7,874 million.

These schemes were approved at the 20th meeting of Provincial Development Working Party for the current fiscal year 2014-15, presided over by Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman Muhammad Irfan Elahi.

The schemes are: Provision Of Laptops (Revised), cost Rs4,946.3 million; Urban Water Supply Scheme Shahkot in Nankana Sahib district (revised), cost Rs214.3 million; Establishment Of A Wildlife Park at Jauharabad in Khushab district at the cost of Rs268.5 million; Development of Animal Safaris and Improvement of Existing Facilities at the Safari Zoo in Lahore at the cost of Rs460.7 million; Construction of Badiana-Bhogiwal-Merajke-Charwa Road (length 26.77 kilometres) in Sialkot district, cost Rs339.7 million; Construction of Faisalabad Ring Road (missing sections between Faisalabad-Sargodha Road and Faisalabad-Chak Jhumra Road) length 11.82 km; Faisalabad (Revised) at the cost of Rs360.29 million; Improvement of Road from Chak 71/SB to Sargodha-Lahore Road along Chokera Minor (length 30 km) in Sargodha (Revised), cost Rs339.537 million; Protection of Bhakkar Flood Bund from erosion to save populated areas and agriculture land and other infrastructures of Bhakkar city, cost Rs892.2 million; Feasibility Study for Rehabilitation of Haveli main line, cost Rs28.8 million; and Feasibility Study for Rehabilitation of Dera Ghazi Khan Canal System, cost Rs23.5 million.

Planning and Development Secretary Waseem Ajmal attended the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30^th, 2014.