ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) has not received any funds so far to carry out development projects during the current fiscal under Khushhal Pakistan Programme (KPP).

“The total allocation under KPP for the current financial year was Rs 111 million, of which the ICT has not yet received even a single penny,” a source said.

Owing to the freezing of funds, all uplift schemes commissioned by the ICT have been suspended, the source said.

The source apprehended that the funds allocated for the current fiscal could be lapsed.

Last year, a sum of Rs 120 million were earmarked for Islamabad but only 64 million of the total were released, the source added.

According to the directives of the chief executive secretariat, development funds should be released by February 15 of every year, but the situation was quite difficult in case of KPP in Islamabad.

The source said the ICT had sent the request to the ministry of interior to ask the finance ministry for the release of allocated development funds but the action is still awaited.