Pakistan's Development Spending Lags While Lawmakers' Schemes Advance

Lawmakers’ schemes outpace sluggish uplift spending

• Govt spends only 41.5pc of development budget in first nine months • PSDP already cut by Rs90bn to fund fuel subsidies • Parliamentarians’ schemes see 70pc utilisation in just four months ISLAMABAD: Barring about 70 per cent utilisation of public funds for ruling parliamentarians’ schemes, the government and its agencies struggled with the development programme, spending less than half of the budget allocations for public welfare projects under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP)...

By none@none.com (Khaleeq Kiani)