ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Monday approvedeight projects worth Rs36 billion and recommended seven others worthRs233.014 billion to the Executive Committee of National Economic Council(ECNEC) for consideration.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan chaired the CDWPmeeting, which was also attended by senior officials of the PlanningCommission and federal ministries/divisions. Representatives of provincialgovernments participated in the meeting through video link.
Projects related to environment, physical planning, transport &communications, water resources and education were presented on theoccasion.
Among environment-related projects, the CDWP approved the ‘DevelopingRevenue Linkage between Marmara Research Center, Turkey & PakistanMeteorological Department Pakistan’ project (worth Rs168.308 million), andreferred the ‘Sindh Resilience Project (PDMA Component Phase-II)’ (worthRs15.3 billion) to ECNEC.
Similarly, among physical planning projects, the CDWP approved the‘Contraction of New Building for Supreme Court Branch Registry in Karachi(Saddar)’ (Rs4.42 billion), and referred ‘Solid Waste Emergency andEfficiency Project’ (Rs17.66 billion) to ECNEC.
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Two projects related to transport & communications, namely ‘Widening andcarpeting Bonni-Buzund-Torkhow road (28km) in Chitral’ (Rs1.21 billion) and‘Construction/upgradation of Dirgi Shahbozai to Taunsa Sharif Road’ (Rs8.94billion) were approved by CDWP.
Meanwhile, two position papers related to transport & communications werealso presented on the occasion. Both projects, namely ‘Construction ofGwadar Ratodero Road Project M-8’ (Rs38.02 billion) and ‘Upgradation,Widening and Construction of Surab Hoshab Road N-85’ (Rs28.82 billion),were recommended to ECNEC.
Likewise, three projects and one position paper related to water resourcespresented in the meeting. All three projects, titled ‘Flood ProtectionSector Project-III NFPP-IV’ (Rs95.98 billion), ‘Sindh Resilience Projectfor Strengthening Flood Embankments & Construction Small Dams’ (Rs23.7billion) and ‘Construction of 100 Small Dams in Balochistan Package-III’(Rs8.87 billion) was referred to ECNEC. The Ministry of Water Resources’position paper titled, ‘Construction of 100 Small Dams in Balochistan’(Rs13.51 billion) was also recommended to ECNEC for approval.
