Six projects of Pakistan’s Information Ministry discontinued

20/02/2009

As many as six ongoing development projects, with a value of 1.56 billion Rupees, of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry have been discontinued at least for the current fiscal year because of the prevailing financial crunch, the Daily Times has learnt.
“These projects of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry have been discontinued for the ongoing fiscal year, and will not be provided any funds during this period. The government had allocated Rs 96.6 million Rupees in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the current year for these schemes, but no releases were made because of the economic crisis,” said sources.

According to documents available to the Daily Times, the following projects have been discontinued: the installation of a TV booster in Shangla area of Swat; the establishment of 47 FM radio stations across the country; the installation of a transmitter in Gwadar; the establishment of uplinking stations in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta; the expansion of educational TV channels (phase-II); and the establishment of the 100 kW mediumwave transmitter at Parachinar (FATA).