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Akhtar AminMonday, May 26, 2014
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PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has surpassed the previous ANP-headed provincial government in getting foreign contribution for its Annual Development Programme for the year 2013-14.
Though the PTI chief Imran Khan recently accused the country’s leading media organization of getting foreign contribution for telecasting various programmes, the majority of projects of the provincial government run by his party are receiving money from foreign donors, including those from the United States.
As per the official record available with The News, the PTI-led provincial government has surpassed the previous government in getting the foreign aid. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was receiving Rs35,000 million foreign contribution for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2013-14. The allocations were Rs23,258 million, Rs16,112 million and Rs9,240 million during the rule of the previous ANP-PPP coalition government for the years 2012-13, 2011-12 and 2010-11, respectively.
As per the documents, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided Rs1,304.72 million to the present provincial government, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Rs1,315 million, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Rs237.25 million, Department for International Development (DFID)-UK Rs14,861.13 million, European Union (EU) Rs5,069.66 million, GIZ (Germany) Rs400 million, Italian Debt Swap Rs147 million, Japan Rs3,624.40 million, KFW (Germany) Rs1,130.05 million, Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) Rs2,804.28 million, International Narcotics Law Enforcement Agency (US) Rs1,972.18, Norway Rs446 million, Swiss Development Council Rs341 million, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Rs875.88 million and World Bank Rs450 million.
The foreign funds were given to projects in various sectors including agriculture, water supply and sanitation, elementary and secondary education but mostly for rehabilitation of schools in the militancy and flood-affected areas, finance, health, forestry, home, industries, law, regional development, rural development, roads, social welfare, urban development and water.
According to the documents, the previous government had utilised 72 percent of the foreign contribution in 2010-11, 35.8 percent in 2011-12 and 33.9 percent in 2012-13. The utilisation of the funds by the PTI-led provincial government was not given in the record. However, the slow development work undertaken by the present government showed that the fund utilisation could turn out to be less compared to the performance of the previous government.
From Print Edition
317 44 245 0
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has surpassed the previous ANP-headed provincial government in getting foreign contribution for its Annual Development Programme for the year 2013-14.
Though the PTI chief Imran Khan recently accused the country’s leading media organization of getting foreign contribution for telecasting various programmes, the majority of projects of the provincial government run by his party are receiving money from foreign donors, including those from the United States.
As per the official record available with The News, the PTI-led provincial government has surpassed the previous government in getting the foreign aid. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was receiving Rs35,000 million foreign contribution for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2013-14. The allocations were Rs23,258 million, Rs16,112 million and Rs9,240 million during the rule of the previous ANP-PPP coalition government for the years 2012-13, 2011-12 and 2010-11, respectively.
As per the documents, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided Rs1,304.72 million to the present provincial government, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Rs1,315 million, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Rs237.25 million, Department for International Development (DFID)-UK Rs14,861.13 million, European Union (EU) Rs5,069.66 million, GIZ (Germany) Rs400 million, Italian Debt Swap Rs147 million, Japan Rs3,624.40 million, KFW (Germany) Rs1,130.05 million, Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) Rs2,804.28 million, International Narcotics Law Enforcement Agency (US) Rs1,972.18, Norway Rs446 million, Swiss Development Council Rs341 million, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Rs875.88 million and World Bank Rs450 million.
The foreign funds were given to projects in various sectors including agriculture, water supply and sanitation, elementary and secondary education but mostly for rehabilitation of schools in the militancy and flood-affected areas, finance, health, forestry, home, industries, law, regional development, rural development, roads, social welfare, urban development and water.
According to the documents, the previous government had utilised 72 percent of the foreign contribution in 2010-11, 35.8 percent in 2011-12 and 33.9 percent in 2012-13. The utilisation of the funds by the PTI-led provincial government was not given in the record. However, the slow development work undertaken by the present government showed that the fund utilisation could turn out to be less compared to the performance of the previous government.
