Sindh will have an amount of Rs 252 billion for its Annual Development Program (ADP) for the next fiscal year of 2018-19, showing a marginal 3.28 percent increase over the last year’s budget.
Of the total development outlay, nearly 80 percent of the proposed development allocation is aimed to spend on ongoing development schemes. This makes it a sum of Rs.Rs 202 billion, said CM Murad Ali Shah who has presented around 6 provincial budgets in the house. The new schemes—the rest 20 percent—would be taken care of by the new government after 2018 elections.
In addition, an amount of Rs30 billion has been allocated for districts development program normally called as districts’ ADP. The provincial government intends to release 25 percent of the development budget for ongoing schemes in the first quarter (July-September 2018) to ensure continuity in development activities.
Shah claimed the total development outlay for Sindh is Rs 343.90 billion, of which, Rs 282 billion will be funded from provincial budget, Rs 46.89 billion from foreign projects assistance (FPA) and Rs 15.02 billion will be provided by the federal government under Public Sector Development Program (PSDP).
The development program includes Rs 24.4 billion for 309 ongoing schemes related to education (primary, secondary, tertiary, special and technical education).
A sum of Rs 12.5 billion has been allocated for 169 schemes of health departments.
Moreover, an allocation of Rs 7.5 billion would be available for 79 schemes of agriculture, livestock and fisheries departments. Also, subsidy assistance to farmers for purchase of tractors, implements and solar water tube wells would continue.
Besides, Rs 5.76 billion will be provided through two foreign-aided projects to increase agricultural productivity of small farmers. The government has allocated Rs 28 billion for 248 ongoing schemes of irrigation department, including underlining of main canals to reduce water losses and control water logging and salinity.
Moreover Rs 27.9 billion has been earmarked for 394 for local government projects, which include 91 ongoing schemes of water and sanitation with allocation of Rs 8.477 billion, 11 schemes of solid waste management with allocation of Rs 1.87 billion, 10 schemes of Water and Sanitation Agency, Hyderabad with allocation of Rs 2.4 billion.
In addition, Rs 7,261 billion has been allocated for two major schemes; Rs 4.26 billion has been allocated for completion of K-IV project and Rs 3 billion for S-III project under matching grants.
In Public Health Engineering, a sum of Rs 9.1 billion has been earmarked for 141 ongoing schemes. It covers water supply and sewerage system. The projects include 15 schemes, costing Rs 3.62 billion in phase– I for elimination of sewage discharging for fresh water bodies.
An amount of Rs 7.3 billion will be available for mega projects in Karachi, most of which are near completion and balance payment is required to be made to the contractors in during the next fiscal year.Also, Rs 31.5 billion has been allocated for 348 ongoing road schemes of Works and Services Department and Rs 7.92 billion for 215 road schemes undertaken by local government department.
Thar Coal
The government has allocated Rs 6.69 billion, as remaining throw-forward, for 14 ongoing schemes of Thar Coal infrastructure development.
There are 22 foreign assisted projects in ADP 2018/19 carrying total allocation of Rs 46.73 billion, including Rs 6.85 billion as grant. In addition, Rs 8.06 billion will be provided from the provincial government share as counterpart allocation.
