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Govt to spend amount of Rs 469 b on development projects
July 22, 2021

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Government will spend 469 billion rupees on infrastructure modernizing projects for accelerating growth.

An amount of over 228 billion rupees have been earmarked for energy sector projects during current fiscal year while 90.313 billion rupees for water sector projects.

The government has allocated 14,000 million rupees for efficient implementation of the first phase of "Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Programme".

Modern, efficient and connected transport infrastructure networks are positively associated with development and rapid growth.

For transport and logistics sector, 173.8 billion rupees were allocated during last fiscal year, of which 127.6 billion rupees have been utilized.

An amount of 302 billion has been earmarked for the development programme of the transport and logistics in the current fiscal year.