ADB appreciates Pb govt for facilitating PP partnership.

LAHORE -- Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director Xiaohong Yang appreciated the efforts of Punjab government for facilitating public-private partnerships in the province through establishing an authority.

In a meeting with Advisor to the Chief Minister on Economic Affairs, Planning and Development Dr Salman Shah at his office here on Wednesday, she promised full support of the bank to the government for its efforts for economic growth in the province.

On the occasion, Dr Salman Shah highlighted agriculture, services, manufacturing, skills and service delivery to public as key priorities of the government.

He added that the public-private partnerships authority had been established just for the purpose of making processes and approvals easy for the private sector and long term plan was to make the authority self-sufficient in funding to avoid delays.

He said...