The Central Development Working Party
(CDWP) approved seven projects worth
Rs12.23 billion and recommended five other
schemes worth Rs158.23 billion to the Executive
Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec)
for consideration. The meeting was presided over
by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan. Projects related to
energy, higher education, information technology,
science and technology, transport and
communications, and water resources were
presented in the meeting.
An energy project for power transmission from the
660-megawatt Lucky Electric coal-fired power plant
at Port Qasim worth Rs1.3 billion was approved by
the CDWP. The objective of the project is to link
the 660MW power plant with the national grid
system for electricity transmission to upcountry load
centers by constructing a 500-
kilovolt double-circuit
transmission line.
Two projects related to higher
education were presented in the
meeting. The establishment of
the National Centre of
Industrial Biotechnology for the
manufacturing of bio-products
using synthetic biology and
metabolic engineering
technology worth Rs1.4 billion
was approved. The project
envisages the setting up of the
National Centre of Industrial
Biotechnology at PMAS-Arid
Agriculture University,
Rawalpindi that can provide
direct value addition to the
natural products isolated from
plants and those derived from
microbial origin. The second
project of higher education
called the Smart University
Transformation through Smart
Classrooms worth Rs2.3 billion
was also approved in the
meeting.
A project related to information technology namely
extension in the Islamabad Hospital HMIS (Hospital
Management Information System) and networking
facilities to Children Hospital worth Rs59.7 million
was approved by the CDWP.
Two projects related to science and technology was
also presented. A project titled Advanced Skills
Development through International Scholarships
worth Rs12.4 billion was recommended to Ecnec.
The second project of Pak University of
Engineering and Emerging Technology worth Rs3.2
billion was approved in the meeting.
Five projects related to transportation and
communications were presented. The
construction of a road from Nagar Sharif to
Suntsar worth Rs1.256 billion was approved by
the CDWP. The revised project envisages
construction of a 54km-long and four-meter
wide single carriageway with the provision of
two-meter wide shoulders from Nagar Sharif to
Suntsar in Gwadar district.
The dualization and rehabilitation of DG KhanDI Khan section (208.19 km)
worth Rs53.4 billion was
referred to Ecnec. The main
objective of the project is the
construction of additional two
lanes and
widening/rehabilitation of the
existing two-lane carriageway
of DG Khan-DI Khan section
of Indus Highway N-55. The
construction of Rajanpur-DG
Khan section as a four-lane
highway of N-55 (121.59 km)
worth Rs33.9 billion was
referred to Ecnec. The Indus
Highway (N-55) additional
carriageway project
(Shikarpur-Rajanpur section)
of 221.95 km worth Rs47.5
billion was also referred to
Ecnec.
A project related to water
resources for increasing the
storage capacity and
improvement in the command
area of Tanda Dam district, Kohat worth Rs2.5
billion was approved by the CDWP. Planning
Secretary Zafar Hasan and senior officials of
federal and provincial governments were
present in the meeting.
Date :
Sunday 5 April 2020
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Investement in Gwadar,