ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved nine projects worth Rs224 billion.
The CDWP — presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan — approved five development projects with a cost of Rs10.022 billion and recommended four projects worth Rs213.86bn to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for final approval.
The projects related to food and agriculture, education, energy, physical planning and housing, science and technology, social welfare, transport and communication, and water resources sectors were considered in the meeting.
A project related to the food & agriculture sector, ‘Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Security Support Project,’ was presented during the meeting. The project of Rs24,640 million has been forwarded to ECNEC for approval. The location of the project is Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Malakand, Nowshera, Peshawar, Swat and Upper Dir districts. The project is proposed to be financed through foreign funding by the Asian Development Bank.
In the CDWP forum, a project related to the education sector ‘Rehabilitation of Schools in Balochistan Affected by Flooding’ has been granted approval with a total cost of Rs1,400 million. The location of the project is Lasbela, Dera Bugti, Quetta, Sibi, Naseerabad, Chaman, Kalat, Khuzdar, Sohbatpur, Kachhi, Killa Abdullah, Jaffarabad, Killa Saifullah, Panjgur, Mastung, Musakhel and Jhal Magsi districts.
The project source of financing is federal PSDP. The project aims to rehabilitate and restore schools that have been severely affected by floods, with the objective of improving schooling opportunities for students in the flood-affected areas of Balochistan.