Saturday, June 11, 2011
LAHORE
The Punjab government has brought the Planning and Development budget for urban development down to Rs 5 billion, from the previous year’s Rs 8.94 billion.
The Planning and Development (P&D) sector primarily responds to the challenges of poverty reduction, employment generation and sustainable development for socio-economic transformation of Punjab.
The budget includes 11 ongoing schemes while no new scheme has been included in the budget. The government’s new policy for P&D includes defining of good governance reforms; extending social sector coverage; improving delivery of public services, reducing poverty and inequality, enhancement of private sector participation through public private partnership, ensuring balanced urban, regional and gender development and accelerated and balanced economic growth.
The ongoing schemes of P&D include Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Programme (PRMP) strengthening of PMU of the PRMP (41.8 million), Supporting Punjab Resource Management Reforms in Punjab (235.02 million), Punjab Capacity Building Programme-III (revised) (50.1 million), Establishment of Urban Sector Policy and Management Unit (95 million), PMU-Sustainable Development of Walled City of Lahore Project (709.3 million), Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) Punjab in collaboration with UNICEF (106.6 million), Capacity Building of P&D department for improved policy planning and monitoring of development process Punjab (34 million), Punjab Private Partnership Cell (103 million), Capacity Building of Civil Servants for police making (31 million), block allocation for priority programme (3 billion), and Block allocation for unfunded fast moving schemes (594 million).
The Punjab government has brought the Planning and Development budget for urban development down to Rs 5 billion, from the previous year’s Rs 8.94 billion.
The Planning and Development (P&D) sector primarily responds to the challenges of poverty reduction, employment generation and sustainable development for socio-economic transformation of Punjab.
The budget includes 11 ongoing schemes while no new scheme has been included in the budget. The government’s new policy for P&D includes defining of good governance reforms; extending social sector coverage; improving delivery of public services, reducing poverty and inequality, enhancement of private sector participation through public private partnership, ensuring balanced urban, regional and gender development and accelerated and balanced economic growth.
The ongoing schemes of P&D include Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Programme (PRMP) strengthening of PMU of the PRMP (41.8 million), Supporting Punjab Resource Management Reforms in Punjab (235.02 million), Punjab Capacity Building Programme-III (revised) (50.1 million), Establishment of Urban Sector Policy and Management Unit (95 million), PMU-Sustainable Development of Walled City of Lahore Project (709.3 million), Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) Punjab in collaboration with UNICEF (106.6 million), Capacity Building of P&D department for improved policy planning and monitoring of development process Punjab (34 million), Punjab Private Partnership Cell (103 million), Capacity Building of Civil Servants for police making (31 million), block allocation for priority programme (3 billion), and Block allocation for unfunded fast moving schemes (594 million).
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