Rs206 million for women development.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that total 10 on-going and new schemes in the Women Development sector have been included with an allocation of Rs 206.250 million in the next financial year 2020-21.

Presenting Sindh Annual Budget for 2020-21, in the Sindh Assembly here on Wednesday, the CM Sindh said that Rs 206.250 million have been allocated for Women Development sector in Budget 2020-21, which also include one new scheme namely' Providing of scooty for working women in Sindh' with an estimated cost of Rs 90.00 million proposed to be included in ADP 2020-21.

It is expected that targets and goals of Development scheme will be achieved in the next year as per plan, he said.

The Sindh CM said that according to population census of Pakistan, 2017, total population of Sindh is 47,886,051, out of this 22,956,478 consists of women, which is 47 per cent of the total population. Women are playing momentous and pivotal...