Pakistan In Focus - Economic times of Pakistan - World Bank terms Punjab's $200mn-worth project moderately unsatisfactory.

The World Bank has downgraded the $200-million Punjab Green Development Programme to moderately unsatisfactory after the provincial government failed to meet environment protection-related key targets despite rapid environmental degradation.

The Washington-based lender's decision to downgrade the project form "moderately satisfactory" to "moderately unsatisfactory" suggests that the government of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar was not taking Prime Minister Imran Khan's clean and green initiative seriously.

The World Bank compiled the fourth Implementation Status and Results Report of the Punjab Green Development...

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