Gujrat: The Government of Punjab has approved PKR 1.62 billion for 117 development projects in Gujrat for the current fiscal year 2018-19, a news source reported. PKR 377 million has been released initially. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Khurram Shahzad in a meeting to review the development projects.
The meeting was briefed by Deputy Director Development Jahangir Shabeer Butt and other high officials were present on the occasion.
The DC told the meeting that during the current fiscal year, PKR 522.776 million has been approved for 34 projects of provincial highways; PKR 128.498 million has been approved for 20 projects relating to public health engineering; and PKR 65 million has been approved for 27 projects of provincial buildings.
Other allocations include PKR 12 million for local government and community development and PKR 8 million for school education and sports department as well.
The DC also instructed executive engineers to speed up the work on development projects.
