Climate Change gets Rs 9.6 bln budgetary allocations under PSPD 2022-23

Climate Change gets Rs 9.6 bln budgetary allocations under PSPD 2022-23
Climate Change gets Rs 9.6 bln budgetary allocations under PSPD 2022-23

ISLAMABAD, Jun 10 (APP): The Federal Government has allocated Rs 9.6 billion under Public Service Development Programme (PSDP) for Climate Change Division in the fiscal year 2022-23.

According to a budgetary document released here on Friday, an amount of Rs 9.5 billion has been allocated for ongoing schemes while 100 million were earmarked for a new scheme in the PSDP 2022-23.

The ongoing schemes include Capacity Building on Water Quality Monitoring and SDG 6 (6.1) Reporting at a cost of Rs 23million; Climate Resilient Urban Human Settlements at Unit at an amount of Rs 19 million was earmarked.

The maximum allocations were earmarked for Upscaling of Green Pakistan Programme (Revised) at a cost of Rs 9.4 billion.

An amount of Rs 100 million were allocated for the much awaited Islamabad Zoo project that would be transformed into a wildlife sanctuary and animal preserve zone.

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