On the other hand, the finance ministry’s provisional figures suggested PSDP expenditures of close to Rs670 billion. For the last fiscal year, the government had allocated Rs70 billion in the PSDP for Covid-19 mitigation measures. He said that the budget was given through the Ministry of Finance, which was also the reason behind the increase in development allocation of the finance ministry. In the new PSDP book, the revised spending of the finance ministry had been shown at Rs66.7 billion at the time of presentation of this year’s budget. PSDP funding can only be made to projects that are part of the PSDP.

Source: The Express Tribune August 10, 2021 03:33 UTC