PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtun­k­hwa government announced an increa­sed budget for development activities in the upcoming fiscal year.

Finance Minister Aftab Alam Afridi presented a Rs547 billion Annual Development Plan (ADP) for 2025-26. This amount is approximately 32 per cent, or Rs131bn, higher than the current year’s Rs416bn.

The allocations under the proposed development expenditure for the next fiscal year include Rs195bn for PADP, Rs39bn for districts, Rs39.6bn for merged districts, Rs92.7bn for the accelerated implementation programme for the merged districts, Rs177.1bn as foreign project assistance and Rs3.47bn for PSDP.

The budget documents reveal that the provincial government has proposed 1,349 ongoing and 810 new schemes in the development outlay for the next year.

Similarly, the number of total........

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