Overview
- Chaired by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, the forum cleared seven projects and advanced four larger proposals for ECNEC’s consideration and final approval.
- The DHQ Hospital Hafizabad upgrade was sent to ECNEC with a directive that any additional cost be borne by Punjab, with reimbursement of any excess federal funds.
- Approvals included the KP component of the National Health Support Programme (Rs1.335bn) and an HEC scheme for students with disabilities (Rs1.846bn) restricted to full‑time enrollees at public universities.
- The Daanish School at Haveli‑Kahuta (Rs4.687bn) was approved with cost rationalisation orders and year‑wise operating budget submissions, alongside ICT rural land records digitisation and two housing projects in Quetta and Islamabad.
- World Bank‑financed power distribution upgrades for HESCO (Rs19.017bn) and PESCO (Rs30.256bn) and the revised KP Irrigated Agriculture Improvement Project (Rs50.956bn, 80% WB, 20% farmers) were recommended to ECNEC, while GB Hydropower and Renewable Energy‑II (Rs3.781bn) was approved.