Finance Division releases Rs5b for Temporarily Displaced Persons.

Byline: Fawad Yousafzai

Islamabad -- Finance Division has released Rs5 billion to Special Federal Development Programme for Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) against the total allocations of Rs32.5 billion in the PSDP 2019-20, while for security enhancement around Rs6 billion over and above the allocations have been released.

Of the total Rs32.5 billion allocations in the Federal PSDP block allocations managed by the Finance Division Rs5 billion have been released till March 2020, while for Security enhancement against the allocation of Rs32.5 billion, Rs38.456 billion have been released, official data shared by the Federal Ministry for Planning, Development and Special Initiative reveals.

Out of the total allocation of Rs149.987 billion under block managed by Finance Division the authorisation for releases till March 13,2020 were Rs77.655 billion. Releases to Programmes under block allocations are made by Finance Division. Prime Minister's Youth and Hunarmand Programme, which comes under block allocation, out of total allocations of Rs10 billion, Rs1516.216 million has been released. For Clean Green Pakistan Movement / Tourism no releases has been issued while the total allocation was Rs2 billion.

For Gas Infrastructure Development Cess no releases have been made and the total allocation was Rs987 million. For the Merged Areas 10 Years Development Plan Rs23 billion has been released against the total allocation of Rs48 billion.

Release of Rs9 billion against the total allocations of Rs24 billion for Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been made by the finance division.

Similarly out of the total PSDP of Rs701 billion during fiscal 2019-20 the total authorisations allowed by the Planning commission are Rs465.269 billion. For Ministries/ Division against the total allocation of Rs299.57 billion authorisations have been issued for the release of Rs193.64 billion.

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