Rs 6.5 billion to be spent on Gilgit-Baltistan development

The Federal Government would spend Rs 6.5 million on socio-economic uplift of region as it has approved Annual Development Plan (ADP) for 2009-2010, Senior officials of the administration said. The ADP 2009-2010 was approved by the Chairman Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira and accordingly the plan was circulated among all government departments, Secretary Planning and Development, Abdus Sattar told APP by phone.
He disclosed some 767 development schemes would be executed this year and out of them 94 were new projects in the ADP. The government is specially focusing on power sector so that the huge water potential is harnessed for the energy production.