Report by Engineering Post
The federal government has allocated Rs 19.58 billion for 13 ongoing and new schemes pertaining to the Information Technology and Telecommunication Ministry under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2026-27.
One of the reportedly important project of 13 schemes, The Smart Islamabad Initiative, was a flagship digital transformation program led by the Ministry of IT & Telecom and being executed by the National Information Technology Board (NITB) Its primary goal was to turn Islamabad into a digitally integrated, citizen-centric smart city through a centralized Fusion Centre. Core objectives of Fusion Centre included establishment of a centralized command and control facility to consolidate real-time data from stakeholders such as the Capital Development Authority (CDA), Safe City Islamabad and the EPA. It would also help in streamlining public safety, traffic control, waste management and air quality monitoring. The project aims for digital integration by bringing various municipal services onto a unified national digital ecosystem.
The project has achieved about 20 percent progress in physical terms by now despite facing funding problems and was being revised cost-wise. Against the demand of more than Rs one billion by the execution agency, the federal government has allocated only Rs 250 million for financial year 2026-27.
More about the IT & Telecom Ministry’s other ongoing and new schemes some other time, please.
