Engineering Post Report
The Federal Government has attached due focus on the completion of important Transport and Communication sector on-going projects and initiating only commercially viable projects on Public-Private Partnership (PPP)/Build-Own-Transfer (BOT) basis under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) during ongoing financial year 2019-20.
It has also decided in principle not to take up any provincial road except for the less-developed areas of Balochistan, South Punjab, South Khyber Pukhtoonkhwah. ex-FATA and Gilgit-Baltistan.
However, East-West regional connectivity as well as inter-provincial connectivity have been given preference to improve the linkage and within country trade.
Under PSDP, as many as 80 ongoing and new projects including those by the National Highway Authority (NHA) have been funded for continued implantation and launching with a huge allocation of Rs 154715.143 million including foreign aid of Rs 58911.915 million.
Transport and Communication sector on-going and new projects are estimated to cost on the whole Rs 2060027.199 million including foreign aid of Rs 455194.000 million. Against this, total expenditure of Rs 893110.444 million had been incurred up t end June 2019.
Out of 42 new schemes listed in the PSDP, only two have been approved at the appropriate level of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) and rest of 40 are all are unapproved as of now.
