Development: Rs25.9 billion approved for 21 schemes

LAHORE: The government has given the go ahead to 21 development schemes at an estimated cost of Rs25.90 billion. The schemes were approved at the fifth meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party. Rs9.51 billion has been approved for shifting electricity, water and gas lines on the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train’s route.

Rs 2.30billion has been allocated for the Punjab Youth Internship Programme (2015-16); Rs 127.26 million for promoting cultivation of pulses; Rs 1.85 billion for developing Pothohar into an Olive Valley; Rs501.42 million for the construction of concrete silos in Muzaffargrah and Bahawalpur; Rs517.41 million for reorganisation of breeding services; Rs65.751 million for the provision of rural poultry breeds; Rs 491.08 million for delivery of better extension services to accelerate fish culture practices; Rs1.33 billion for the construction of a jail in Lodhran; Rs338.57 million for the construction of a jail in Layyah; and Rs302.345 million for establishment of satellite stations of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency at divisional level.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 12^th, 2015.