11 projects worth Rs123bn cleared

ISLAMABAD: The Central Devel­opment Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday approved 11 development projects with a total estimated cost of over Rs123 billion.

The meeting of the CDWP, presided over by Planning Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Ahsan Iqbal, approved seven projects with a total cost of Rs15.174bn and recommended four others worth Rs108.16bn to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) for approval.

The meeting approved the establishment of the Daanish School in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Haveli-Kahuta) with a budget of Rs4.688bn, following a request from the newly elected AJK Premier Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore ahead of the upcoming state elections. The CDWP was instructed to rationalise the cost based on the previously approved Daanish Schools PC-I, which was approximately Rs3.9bn.

In the health sector, two revised projects were undertaken. The first, titled “Upgradation of DHQ Hospital District Hafizabad,” valued at Rs7.93bn, was recommended to Ecnec. The second, “National Health Support Programme (KP component),” worth Rs1.335bn, was approved by the CDWP.

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