The federal government has released Rs526.3 billion (75 percent) including Rs95.84 billion foreign aid (74.7 percent) for various ongoing and new development projects under the Public-Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2019-2020 against the budgeted allocation of Rs701 billion.
According to the latest data of the PSDP 2019-2020 released by the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms on Saturday, the government released Rs230.12 billion (76 percent) including Rs13.24 billion foreign aid for development projects of various ministries, divisions and related departments out of Rs305.36 billion budgeted allocation.
The government also released a total of Rs170.64 billion (87 percent) including Rs79.1 billion (87.23 per cent) foreign aid out of Rs196.11 billion for development budget of corporations; Rs154.54 billion including Rs68.64 billion foreign aid for the projects of the National Highways Authority (NHA); and Rs16 billion including Rs10.46 billion foreign aid for National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC)/Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO).
The ministry released a total of Rs41.78 billion (93.8 percent) including Rs2.77 billion foreign aid out of Rs44.54 billion budgeted allocation for development projects of special areas; Rs25.667 billion including Rs1.94 billion foreign aid for development projects of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK); and Rs16.1 billion including Rs833.934 million foreign aid for Gilgit-Baltistan for financial year 2019-2020.
The government released Rs8.36 billion including Rs1.187 billion foreign aid out of Rs11.25 billion for development projects of the National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Division.
A total of Rs30.18 billion out of Rs46.99 billion have been released for the Cabinet Division.
The government released Rs38.49 billion for security enhancement against Rs53 billion budgeted allocation for financial year 2019-2020.
The Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms released Rs10.76 billion for development projects of the Railways Division against Rs15 billion budgeted allocation, Rs2.12 billion for development projects of Science and Technology Research Division, Rs8.22 billion for National Food Security and Research Division.
The ministry said that Rs3.67 billion have been released for development projects of Federal Education and Professional Training Division out of Rs4.5 billion budgeted allocation, and Rs27 billion including Rs132.31 million foreign aid have been released out of Rs28.65 billion for the development projects of the Higher Education Commission.
The ministry released a total of Rs72.52 billion for Water Resources Division including Rs5.78 billion foreign and Rs301.47 million for Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority.
The government has released Rs8.22 billion out of Rs11.3 billion for National Food Security and Research Division.
A total of Rs7.5 billion have been released for development projects of Climate Change Division.
A total of Rs23 billion have been released out of Rs48 billion for development project of Merged Areas 10 Years Development Plan and Rs9.68 billon against Rs24 billion for Merged Districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.