Rs 12,500.457 Mln Released For Various Water, Power Projects So Far

ISLAMABAD, (Muzaffargarh.City – 06th Feb, 2018 ) :The Planning Commission has released a total of Rs 12,500.457 million against total allocation of Rs 101,507.147 million in annual Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2017-18 for various water and power projects so far.

According to the data of Planning Commission, a sum of Rs 11,748 million was released for water sector against total allocation of Rs. 36,750 million while Rs 751.957 million was released against total 64,757.147 million for power projects.

An amount of Rs.5,000 million was released for Kachhi Canal Project, Rs.2,600 million for Extension of Right Bank Outfall Drain from Sehwan to Sea, Rs 1,700 million for Remedial Measures to Control water logging (Muzaffargarh) and Rs.280 million for rehabilitation of Irrigation System in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

A sum of Rs.280 million was released for construction of Basool dam (Gawadar), Rs.240 million for Balochistan Effluent Disposal into RBOD-I (Jaffarabad), Rs.160 million each for construction of 20 small dams in KPK and Sindh, Rs.140 million for channelization of Deg Nullah Punjab, Rs.120 million for construction of 100 delay action dams in Balochistan, Rs.160 million for Darwat dam project and 92.500 million for normal/emergent flood programme.

Similarly, an amount of Rs397.232 million was released for electrification of union council in NA-50, Rs.137.237 million for Installation of 50 solar tube wells in Balochistan and Rs100 million for supply of electricity to different location of NA-109 (Mandi Bahuddin).