{"id":68555,"date":"2025-03-20T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=68555"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:57:26","slug":"punjab-govt-approves-development-projects-worth-rs57-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/punjab-govt-approves-development-projects-worth-rs57-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt approves development projects worth Rs57 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lahore\/lahore-development-authority-seals-181-illegal-commercial-buildings\/\"> Provincial Development Working Party<\/a> (PDWP) has approved a massive Rs 57.38 billion in funds for various projects in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>In its 70th meeting, chaired by Planning &amp; Development P&amp;D Board Chairman Barrister Nabeel Ahmed Awan, the PDWP allocated Rs 27.49 billion for the Punjab Chief Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-cm-maryam-laptop-scheme-2025-check-latest-merit-list-updates-inside\/\"> Laptop Scheme<\/a>, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">which<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">is<\/span> aimed at <span class=\"diff-highlight\">improving<\/span> education and <span class=\"diff-highlight\">enhancing<\/span> digital literacy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the laptop scheme, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">other<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">important<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">projects<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">were<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">also<\/span> approved\u00a0<span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">funding<\/span> including Rs 9.17 billion <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">establish<\/span> the University of Child Health Sciences in Lahore <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">education<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> healthcare <span class=\"diff-highlight\">services<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">specific<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">children<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> Rs 1.2 billion <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">build<\/span> a multi-story building for Additional Sessions Judges and Civil Judges in Sheikhupura<span class=\"diff-highlight\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"diff-highlight\">The<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">DWP<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">also<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">approved<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">funding<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">a<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">few<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">additional<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">projects<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">including<\/span>\u00a0Rs 9.59 billion for Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority stations<span class=\"diff-highlight\">;<\/span> Rs 4.41 billion for the construction <span class=\"diff-highlight\">of<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">the<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">headquarters<\/span> of the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) in Lahore<span class=\"diff-highlight\">;<\/span> and Rs 1.73 billion <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">establish<\/span> material testing laboratories in Gujranwala and Sialkot.<\/p>\n<p>Rs 2.16 billion was <span class=\"diff-highlight\">also<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">allocated<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">build<\/span> aquaculture malls in the province and Rs 2.26 billion was <span class=\"diff-highlight\">approved<\/span> for the revamping project of OPD blocks of Tertiary Care Hospitals<span class=\"diff-highlight\">;<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">which<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">will<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">modernize<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">existing<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">systems<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has approved a massive Rs 57.38 billion in funds for various projects in Punjab. In its 70th meeting, chaired by Planning &amp; Development P&amp;D Board Chairman Barrister Nabeel Ahmed Awan, the PDWP allocated Rs 27.49 billion for the Punjab Chief Minister Laptop Scheme, which is aimed at improving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":68557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[8003,27287,12992],"class_list":["post-68555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-govt","tag-punjab-development-projects","tag-punjab-laptop-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68558,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68555\/revisions\/68558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}