KARACHI, May 22: Work on the Khushhal Pakistan Programme, phase-IV, is under progress and the finance department has released Rs260.020 million under a special allocation made by the Sindh governor in addition to Rs1000.00 million as funds for KPP-IV (total Rs1260.020 million).

This was stated by Sindh chief secretary K. B. Rind while talking to a delegation of journalists in his office on Thursday.

He said the Sindh government had started a series of grand developmental projects all over the province, such as Drought Emergency Relief Assistance (DERA), Khushhal Pakistan Program(KPP), Annual Development Program (ADP), RBOD, K-III, Karachi Northern Bypass (KNBP), Layari Expressway (LEW), Irrigation Re-vamping Program (IRP), Gorakh Hill Station, Thar Coal Project, Coastal Area Development Program, Shahrah-e-Faisal flyover, FTC / Gora Qabrustan flyover and a number of other uplift plans.

He stated that requisite details of all the schemes had been obtained from Nazims and DCOs of the districts and they were being studied.

The chief secretary said that under the phase-IV of the KPP the government had provided Rs236.200 million to Karachi, and Rs82.400 million to Hyderabad.—PPI