The project document says merged areas are worse compared to the rest of the country, with 56 per cent of the 2.2 million women without CNICs. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is seeking $300 million from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group to help improve access to and quality of basic services in vulnerable communities in the districts recently merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Following the merger, residents of the merged areas have expressed increased expectations for improved service delivery, particularly in the areas of clean water, food security, education and health. In 2018, newly merged areas were brought under the legal system and governmental authority of KP government.
QUETTA: The Planning and Development Department has given authorisation of Rs55 billion for carrying out new and ongoing projects included in the Public Sector Development Programme for the year 2020-21.
This was informed during a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani and Chief Secretary retired Captain Fazeel Asghar on Tuesday.
The meeting, held to review the Annual Development Programme 2020-21, was told that out of 1,597 new schemes included in the current year’s PSDP, 1,505 had been approved by the PDWP and DSC, while the finance department had released more than Rs44bn for the new and old projects.