Murad unfreezes Rs208bn to complete 4158 ongoing, new development schemes

Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah reviewed the ongoing development portfolio of different departments on Monday morning at CM House and decided to de-freeze Rs208.113 billion of 4158 ongoing and other schemes so that work could be started.
It may be noted that the chief minister has frozen all the development funds due to the emergency of heavy rains and floods that wreaked havoc in the province. The meeting was attended by provincial ministers, Shahjeel Inam Memon, Syed Nasir Shah, Zia Abbas Shah, Jam Khan Shoro, Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput, Chairman P&D Hassan Naqvi, Secretary Finance Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary to CM Rahim Shaikh, Secretary Local government Najam Shah, Secretary Works Imran Atta, Secretary Irrigation Sohail Qureshi, Member P&D Fatah Tunio and other concerned officers. Chairman P&D briefing the chief minister said that 4185 were going on with an allocation of Rs204.652 billion against which 119.649 billion were released but the amount was frozen by the government. The CM chief minister reviewed the ongoing schemes, including 1182 schemes of Rs58.345 billion were being with an allocation of Rsa100 million likely to be completed by the end of the financial year, 2022-23 were given total funds installments but were frozen by the government.