July 3, 2021
PESHAWAR: The KP government has released Rs16. 86 billion funds for ongoing Annual Development Programme schemes for merged areas. Maximum development funds have been released for construction of roads amounting to Rs4,010.999 million followed by Rs 2,001 million for Primary and Secondary Education, Rs1944 million for water and Rs1042 million for sanitation and clean drinking water projects.
The Finance Department has released Rs 683 million for Agriculture, Rs 828 million for Energy and Power, Rs398 million for Forestry, Rs 611 million for Higher Education and Rs 214 million for Home Department’s ongoing projects.
Likewise, Rs 515.719 million were released for the Industries Department, Rs 60 million for the Mineral Department, Rs 919 million for Local Bodies, Rs 708 million for Sports and Tourism, Rs528 million for Urban Development besides several others projects.
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KMC Administrator Laeeq Ahmed approves Rs25.982 billion budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. Photo courtesy KMC Twitter
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation on Tuesday passed a tax-free budget of Rs25.982 billion for the next financial year 2021-22 with a surplus of Rs12 million and estimated expenditures of about Rs25.970bn.
In the absence of an elected set-up, KMC Administrator Laeeq Ahmed approved the budget using the powers of the City Council. No new tax has been imposed in the budget.
The administrator said that for the next financial year priority was given to those development schemes which were in the public interest.
‘Past govts destroyed institutions through political interference’
June 30, 2021
LAHORE: Former Chief Minister Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim called on Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar here Tuesday and discussed matters of mutual interest as well as overall political situation.
Chief Minister Usman Buzdar said the present government carried out substantial development in the province, whereas the previous governments relied on pomp and show only. He regretted that the past regimes destroyed institutions through political interference, whereas the present government made the institutions autonomous and ensured appointments on merit.
The chief minister said the culture of personal liking and disliking was weeded out by the PTI government and merit policy was being promoted, stated official spokesman.
Daily Times
June 30, 2021
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government decided to construct a women and children hospital in South Waziristan with an estimated cost of Rs 200 million to provide better healthcare services to patients.
Under Accelerated Implementation Programme (AIP) of 10 years tribal decades strategy (TDS-2020-2030), officials in KP Health Department told APP on Tuesday that a state-of-the art hospital would be constructed in premises of district headquarters hospital Wana in South Waziristan for which Rs 20 million were allocated in Annual Development Programme (ADP 2021-22). A paraplegic centre would be established in merged areas with an estimated cost of Rs 500 million to help patients of spinal cord injuries besides physical, occupational, vocational and psychosocial rehabilitation services for which Rs 440 million earmarked in FY 2021-22. Besides construction of residential flats for health staff at secondary level hospitals in merged tribal districts, the government would