For Halka-D I Khan Motorway, he said, 13 billion rupee have been allocated and 1.5 billion rupee have been
earmarked for land acquisition, affected properties and relocation of utilities for construction of approach roads of the project.
According to details, Rs 889.424 million was allocated for police department whereas Rs 899.905 million was
earmarked for the prisons department.
Under Public sector Development Program (PSDP), the government also allocated Rs 500 million for establishment of Combined Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for Industrial area of Karachi, whereas Rs 400 million have been
earmarked for construction or upgrading of Dirgi Shabozai (N-70) to Taunsa (N-55) Road, Balochistan.
In case of Rajdhani, Duronto and fully Air Conditioned/Express trains, the number of berths to be
earmarked under this quota in 3AC is 4 lower berths per coach as against 3 lower berths per coach in normal Mail/Express trains.
While this is fractionally higher than in real terms over the Rs21.188 billion the authority had
earmarked for development projects in the outgoing fiscal year, as a ratio of the overall budget it is two per cent lower than last year's 56 per cent allocation.
Rs 1.318 billion has been
earmarked for Zyra-Dabori Road, Aurakzai Agency.
The federal government has
earmarked Rs 1,500 million for the project in the PSDP 2017-18.
Giving the sectoral breakdown, Ortom
earmarked N87, 587,490,292.00 for Economic, Law, and Justice and Social sectors while N25,228,246,978.00 was
earmarked to administration.
According to experts total Rs5.4 billion has been
earmarked for the new schemes of the HEC, while Rs16.05 billion
earmarked for the ongoing schemes.
The guidance implements a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which gives States the option of repurposing certain
earmarked funds if the original earmark is more than 10 years old and if less than 10 percent of the project funds have been obligated, or if the project is closed.
Their claim is tantamount to saying that if an account has been
earmarked in the past, then any allocation to it now must be secretly
earmarked.
The government will set up national sports academies for various sporting disciplines across the country apart from the `200 crore
earmarked for J& K as a special incentive to enhance sporting facilities in the state.
Presenting the budget, Advisor to Chief Minister Mir Khalid Langove said 50.742 billion rupees of funds have been
earmarked for public sector development programme while over 164 billion rupees have been
earmarked for non-development expenditures.
