Overview
- Official end‑of‑year accounts show total PSDP expenditure for the fiscal year that ended June 30 reached Rs916.02 billion, roughly Rs96 billion more than the authorised Rs820.5 billion.
- The bulk of the overspend came from a small group of implementers, with the Power division (NTDC/PEPCO) spending Rs122.555 billion against Rs73.142 billion, the Water Resources division spending Rs137.49 billion against Rs101.64 billion, and Railways spending Rs35.143 billion against about Rs18.558 billion.
- Both federal ministries and state‑owned corporations exceeded their allocations, with ministries spending Rs611.105 billion versus Rs565.138 billion authorised and corporations spending Rs304.916 billion versus Rs255.375 billion authorised.
- Several programme areas closely matched or nearly used their budgets, including Provinces & Special Areas (Rs192.559bn of Rs195.383bn authorised), the Higher Education Commission (Rs34.897bn of Rs34.906bn), and the National Highway Authority which broadly used its Rs182.233bn allocation.
- The year‑end acceleration in spending reverses earlier slow utilisation and could widen fiscal deficits or require special authorisations, so auditors, the finance ministry and parliamentary committees are likely to review late releases, reclassifications and project disbursement practices next.