ISLAMABAD – The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) Monday accordedapproval to 17 projects worth Rs 18.8 billion besides recommending nineprojects worth Rs 594.5 billion to Executive Committee of National EconomicCouncil (ECNEC) for consideration.
The meeting of CDWP was held here under the chairmanship of Minister forPlanning, Development and Reform Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar and was attendedby Secretary Planning Zafar Hasan, senior officials from federal andprovincial governments.
Projects related to energy, transport and communication, science andtechnology, health, population planning, industries and commerce, food andagriculture and education were presented in the meeting.
Ministry of Water resources presented position paper of Dasu Hydel PowerProject due to increased land and compensation cost from Rs 19 billion toRs 36 billion with total of Rs 510 billion which was approved and referredto ECNEC for consideration.
Ministry of National Food, Security and Research presented five projects‘Productivity Enhancement of Wheat’ worth Rs 31987.4 million, ‘ProductivityEnhancement of Rice’ worth Rs 15809.620 million, ‘Productivity Enhancementof Sugarcane’ worth Rs 5019.589 million and ‘National Oilseeds EnhancementProgram (NOEP)’ worth Rs 10167.25 million and ‘Cage Culture ClusterDevelopment Project’ worth Rs 6582 million which were all recommended toECNEC for consideration.
Three projects and a position paper related to energy sector were presentedin the meeting.The first project ‘Up-gradation of POL Testing Facilities of HDIP atIslamabad, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta and ISO Certification ofPetroleum Testing Laboratory at Islamabad’ worth Rs. 293.614 million waspresented and approved.The second energy project to be executed in district Awaran ‘Constructionof 132 KV Grid Station at Mashkay and 132 KV STD Nal-Mashkay TransmissionLine (120km)’ worth Rs. 1193.39 million was also approved in the meeting.
The third project ‘500 KV Moro Grid Station’ worth Rs 5404.19 million to beexecuted in district Naushahro Feroze was presented and recommended toECNEC for consideration.The project related to transport and communication ‘Construction of GroyneWall/Break Water and allied works at East Bay (Demi Zer) Gwadar’ worthRs 1019.519 million was approved in the meeting.
Higher Education Commission (HEC) presented two projects ‘Strengthening andDevelopment of Physical and Technological Infrastructure at the Universityof Haripur’ worth Rs 1546.960 million, and ‘Livestock Sector Developmentthrough Capacity Building, Applied Research and Technology Transfer,University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences’ worth Rs 1905 million, whichwere approved in the meeting.Ministry of Science and Technology presented two projects titled‘Establishment of Pak-Korea Testing Laboratory for PV Modules and AlliedEquipment’ worth
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Rs 1385.429 million and ‘Up-gradation of Polymers and Plastics Laboratoryat PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Lahore’ worth Rs 140.249 million which wereaccorded approval.
Three health related projects were presented in the meeting. Ministry ofNational Health, Services, Regulation and Coordination presented ‘Treatmentof Cancer Patients of ICT, AJK & Gilgit-Baltistan’ worth Rs 4772.150million which was recommended to ECNEC for consideration.The CDWP also approved two project presented by Pakistan Atomic EnergyCommission (PAEC) including ‘Up-gradation of Atomic Energy CancerHospital-KIRAN (AECH-KIRAN)’ worth Rs 2342.790 million and ‘Up-gradation ofDiagnostic & Therapeutic Facilities at BINO, Bahawalpur’ worth Rs 1377.176million.
The meeting also accorded approval to three projects related to populationplanning were presented by Ministry of National Health, Services,Regulation and Coordination worth of 609 million.
The project presented by Commerce Division including ‘Remodelling andExpansion of Karachi Expo Centre (Component-II)’ worth Rs 2677.42 millionwas also given approval whereas ministry of Industries and Productionpresented three projects titled ‘Handicraft Export Development Project’worth Rs 385.226 million, ‘Industrial Designing & Automation Centres(IDAC)’ worth Rs 1470.88 million and ‘Footwear Cluster Development throughCAD/CAM & CNC Machining’ worth Rs 78.7 million were also approved by theCDWP.
Ministry of Education requested extension of ‘Establishment and Operationof Basic Education Community Schools in the country’ till June 2019 worthRs 4629.742 million which was referred to ECNEC for consideration.
