Recently President Asif Ali Zardari called for early completion of mega development projects in Balochistan to provide jobs and opportunities to the people and bring the province at par with rest of the country and address sense of deprivation among people.
Balochistan’s speedy development is top priority of the government, he said chairing a high level meeting to review progress on mega development projects, and called upon the state functionaries to step up their efforts as the government could brook no further delay.
Briefing the mediapersons about the meeting, Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that four separate presentations were given each by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr. Nadeemul Haq, Chief Secretary Balochistan Mir Ahmad Baksh Lehri, Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) Muhammad Ali Gardezi and Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Shakil Durani, on development projects in infrastructure, transport and communication system, water sector projects including small and medium dams and other projects under the Aghaz-e- Haqooq-e - Balochistan package.
The meeting was informed that out of 1180 ongoing projects being executed through PSDP of current year (2011-12) throughout the country, 133 projects costing Rs 305 billion are being executed in Balochistan alone.
Balochistan’s speedy development is top priority of the government, he said chairing a high level meeting to review progress on mega development projects, and called upon the state functionaries to step up their efforts as the government could brook no further delay.
Briefing the mediapersons about the meeting, Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that four separate presentations were given each by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr. Nadeemul Haq, Chief Secretary Balochistan Mir Ahmad Baksh Lehri, Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) Muhammad Ali Gardezi and Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Shakil Durani, on development projects in infrastructure, transport and communication system, water sector projects including small and medium dams and other projects under the Aghaz-e- Haqooq-e - Balochistan package.
The meeting was informed that out of 1180 ongoing projects being executed through PSDP of current year (2011-12) throughout the country, 133 projects costing Rs 305 billion are being executed in Balochistan alone.