The Provincial Development Working Party Punjab approved twenty-one development schemes of various development sectors with an estimated cost of PKR. 25,900.681 Million.
These schemes were approved in the 5th meeting of Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) of current fiscal year 2015-16 presided over by the Punjab Chairman P&D Board Muhammad Irfan Elahi. Members of the Planning & Development Board, Provincial Secretary concerned and other senior representatives of the relevant Provincial Departments also attended the meeting.
According to Spokesman for P&DD, the approved development schemes included:
- Punjab Youth Internship Program (2015-16) at the cost of PKR. 2300.00 Million
- Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (Shifting of Utilities, LDA Departmental Charges for Execution of work, LESCO Power Supply Interface) at the cost of PKR. 9516.44 Million
- Promotion of Pulses Cultivation in Punjab at the cost of PKR. 127.260 Million
- Developing Pothwar into an Olive Valley at the cost of PKR. 1850.000 Million
- Extension Service-2.0 Farmer Facilitation through Modernized Agriculture Extension at the cost of PKR. 4399.864 Million
- Construction of Modern Concrete Silos of 100,000 M. Tons Capacity at Muzaffargrah and Bahawalpur Distt(Phase-I) (Revised) at the cost of PKR. 501.427 Million
- Restructuring and reorganization of breeding services in Punjab at the cost of PKR. 517.411 Million
- Provision of rural poultry breeds through Augmenting R&D at the cost of PKR. 65.751 Million
- Delivery of better extension services to accelerate fish culture practices at the cost of PKR. 491.084 Million
- Construction of District Jail, Lodhran at the cost of PKR. 1330.504 Million
- Construction of District Jail, Layyah (Non-Residential Portion) at the cost of PKR. 338.574 Million
- Establishment of Satellite Stations of Punjab Forensic Science Agency at Divisional Level at the cost of PKR. 302.345 Million
- Widening/improvement of road from Killianwala to Garh Tehsil Tandlianwala, length; 14.00 km, District Faisalabad at the cost of PKR. 266.240 Million
- Construction of dual carriage way from Faisalabad Dry Port to Sahianwala via Chak Jhumra, length: 18.90 km, District Faisalabad at the Cost of Rs. 930.632 million
- Widening/improvement of road from Bhowana to Pansara Road upto Khair Wala Bangla, Tehsil Bhowana, length: 26.25 km, District Chiniot at the cost of PKR. 378.840 Million
- Construction of Bhowana Bypass Tehsil Bhowana, length: 9.00 km, District Chiniot at the cost of PKR. 395.407 Million
- Rehabilitation of Chund-Lalian Road from km No.0.00 to 7.35, 8.70 to 13.84 and 22.01 to 35.00 length: 25.48 km, District Jhang and from km No. 35.00 to 40.52 and 65.16 to 70.84 length: 11.20 District Jhang and Chiniot at the cost of PKR. 468.257 Million
- Completion of Remaining Portion of Toba Tek Singh Road. Construction of Toba Bye Pass from Toba-Jhang Road to Toba-Rajana Road West-South Side, length: 17.00 km, District T.T.Singh at the cost of PKR. 515.637 Million
- Rehabilitation of road Lehtrar Burj via Biaga length:19.60 km, Tehsil Kotli Sattian District Rawalpindi at the cost of PKR. 224.217 Million
- Widening/rehabilitation of Lehtrar Kotli Kulliary Road length: 24.10 km District Rawalpindi at the cost of PKR. 591.035 Million
- Construction of Kahuti to Kulliary road length: 31 km, Tehsil Kotli Sattian District Rawalpindi at the cost of PKR. 389.756 Million