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Govt planning to embark on three-year National Growth Strategy: Asad Umar

Govt planning to embark on three-year National Growth Strategy: Asad Umar
February 8, 2020
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has said that the government is fully committed to meeting the target of expenditures of development funds under Public Sector Development Programme for current fiscal year. Briefing media in Islamabad on Saturday, he said that the prime minister had issued clear direction to meet the target of spending 701 billion rupees on development projects at any cost. Asad Umar said that his ministry was planning to revamp the system to ensure project development, monitoring and evaluation besides enhancing focus on Sustainable Development Goals. He said that the ministry was also planning to embark on a three years National Growth Strategy 2021-2023. Secretary Planning Zafar Hassan informed on the occasion that out of 1034 projects, 171 are due to be completed by the end of current fiscal year.