CDWP clears Rs900bn national development projects

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday cleared a total of 26 development projects worth Rs900 billion, most of them in the transport and communication sector. Presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan, the CDWP itself approved 17 projects worth Rs33bn and recommended nine others worth Rs867bn to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) for formal approval. The cleared projects spanned several sectors, including transport and communications, energy, governance, health, higher education, information technology, agriculture and food security, industries and commerce, mass media, physical planning and housing, and water resources.