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CONTENTS S.No. Description Page No. A. SUMMARY OF TABLES i) Preface ii) Mandatory Policy Guidelines iii) Sectoral/District wise Allocations – Summary B. SECTORAL PROGRAMME Part-I . ADMINISTRATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT SECTOR (A&LE) Excise & Taxation, Zakat & Ushr Department 01 - 01 Home and Police 02 -05 Information Department 06 - 06 Law Department 07 - 08 S&GAD Department 09 - 09 Part-II. Energy Sector Power 10 -19 Part-III. NRM Sector Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries 20 - 24 Forestry, Wild life & Environment 25 - 27 Minerals, Mines ,Industries & Commerce 28 - 29 Food Department 30 - 30 Tourism, Culture & Youth Development 31 - 33 Part-IV. Social Sector Education 34 - 47 Health 48 - 54 CONTENTS Part-V. Works Sector Area, Rural and Urban Development 55 - 58 Irrigation 59 - 60 Physical Planning & Housing (PPH) 61 - 67 Transport & Communication (T&C) 68 - 82 Block allocations 83- 83 1) CM Package Ph-I 2) CM Package Ph-II 3) CM Sustainable Development Goal 4) LG&RD 5) Feasibilities, Studies, Research work 6) District Development Program C. PSDP projects over and above GB ADP 2015-16 84 - 84 PREFACE PREFACE The FY 2016-17 remained the most successful year in the development history of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). For the first time, GB utilized 100% of the allocated funds in the ADP due to constant monitoring and facilitation by Planning & Development Department (P&DD) and timely responses from the line departments. Resultantly, Federal Government allocated Rs. 7025 million more for the FY 2017-18- than the previous year- for the GB ADP and the PSDP schemes executed by provincial departments. The ADP2017-18 has been formulated within the policy framework and guidelines of the government, whereby those development projects have been included which will ultimately help in ensuring the good governance, creation of employment opportunities, encouraging growth and raising the living standard of common man. To honor our commitments with respect to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Pakistan Vision 2025, appropriate interventions on mega scale have also been incorporated. The first ever Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) has been conducted by Planning & Development Department during FY 2016-17 , successfully, obtaining valuable baseline information regarding 121 indicators. Rudimentary Key Finding Report (KFR) has also been received very recently and, therefore, a deliberate effort has been made to initiate evidence based planning. Among the sectors, Education and Health have been allocated about 63% and 60% more funds than the previous year’s utilization. This year’s allocation to the social sector comes around 19.3% of the budget- an immense increase as compared to previous year. Energy Sector has been accorded due priority, by allocating 26.8% of the budget; and, in the Infrastructure sector, 19.2% of the resources have been allocated, to improve overall communications network. Finally, a concerted effort has been made under the supervision of the Chief Minister, Gilgit-Baltistan, Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman and Chief Secretary, Dr. Kazim Niaz, to keep strict fiscal discipline and strong moratorium on the excessive throw forward. BABAR AMAN BABAR (PAS) SECRETARY P&D Planning & Development Department Gilgit, the 14thJune, 2017 Annual Development Program 2017-18 MANDATORY POLICY GUIDELINES APPROVED BY THE GILGIT-BALTISTAN CABINET A. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION AND CONCEPTUALIZATION I. For inclusion of new development schemes in the ADP 2018-19, concept paper/ PC II/ PC I will be prepared, submitted and discussed with Secretary P&D during the period from 1st December to 15th February. II. All the proposals will be evaluated on need based analysis, substantiated by ICT database, baselines indicators, sectoral plans/policies, strategies of P&DD and disaster analysis. B. PROJECT APPROVAL PC Is of new schemes must be submitted to P&DD before the cut-off date of 30th September, 2017. All such schemes shall be processed by all forums of GB before 31st January, 2018. Work must start, on all new schemes reflected in ADP 2017-18 for which land compensation amount will have been released, before the end of Financial Year 2017-18. However, the new schemes, which are targeted, must stand completed before 1st June, 2018. C. PROJECT EXECUTION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION Project monitoring plays critical role in project completion in time. To use this tool, following actions would be taken in future: I. Line Departments will submit properly chalked out cash/work plan before 31st July. Accordingly, progress on cash and work plan will be monitored scientifically by using Information and Communication Technology; II. Ongoing schemes will be monitored by P&D on monthly basis, by Chief Secretary on Quarterly basis and by the Chief Minister, bi- annually. Data will be juxtaposed and corroborated with cash and work plan. Gaps in the project will be highlighted and remedial actions will be taken for streamlining the project, i.e. to continue the project or otherwise; III. The most important factor which makes a project successful is effective coordination between the Sponsoring department, Executing department, district administration, P&DD and Finance department, which is the responsibility of the head of the Sponsoring department. Chronic land issues may only be resolved through daily/weekly coordination. IV. Funds shall be transferred from the slow moving to the fast moving projects in-order to ensure optimal utilization of available budget. The performance of heads of departments/attached departments shall be gauged on the basis of utilization of funds allocated to the department, completion of targeted schemes and compliance of rules; V. In case of un-satisfactory monitoring reports, civil and criminal proceedings will be initiated against the delinquent; VI. For revision of schemes, laid down rules and regulations of Planning Commission will be followed in letter and spirit. Accordingly, projects will be evaluated for revisions in the respective approving forums for approval of the revisions as per Planning Manual; VII. In case, project is likely to be completed within 15% permissible limit, line department will intimate P&DD at least 4 months before the completion of work or end of financial year, whichever is earlier, so that necessary scrutiny could be conducted; VIII. POL and logistic cost of monitoring shall be covered from within project contingency cost. This will enable P&DD to do monitoring of development projects on regular basis, which was hampered due to lack of budget from regular side; D. PROJECT COMPLETION I. Departments shall ensure completion of targeted schemes as per plan. In case, there is any issue, which hampers project completion in time, it would be communicated by the head of sponsoring department, after obtaining input from the Executing department, to P&DD for taking remedial actions; II. Departments would be bound to submit project completion reports (PC-IV) in P&DD, within first two months E. GENERAL I. Education Department will execute all Education sector projects. However, Works Department will provide technical and procedural support to Education Deptt. for matters pertaining to technical sanction, if required. II. The schemes costinguptoRs. 3 million pertaining to those departments, where engineering section doesn’t exist may preferably be executed by LG&RD, GB. III. Notified functions of P&D, GB as per Planning Commission shall be considered as part of Rules of Business of GB and shall be published in the official gazette accordingly. IV. Schemes identified by MGBLAsshould not be less than Rs 10 million, save in exceptional circumstances. V. If sponsoring department fails to prepare PC-I within a year, the project shall be deleted from ADP. ***************** SECTOR WISE SUMMARY OF ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADP 2017-18 S.No Name of Sector Number On- New Targe Approved Cost Exp. Upto Throw-forward Allocation for Exp. Beyond Allocation of Going ted 06/2017 for 2017-18 2017-18 2017-18 % schemes Total FEC Total FEC Rupee 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Part-I Administration and Law Enforcement Sector i Excise and Taxation & Zakat Ushr Deptt. 10 6 4 2 672.393 0.000 216.495 455.898 129.158 0.000 129.158 326.740 0.97% ii Home and Police 44 34 10 14 4132.975 0.000 1769.139 2363.836 667.777 0.000 667.777 1696.059 5.01% iii Information Department 3 3 0 2 134.900 0.000 62.286 72.614 25.614 0.000 25.614 47.000 0.19% iv Law Department 13 12 1 2 2203.956 0.000 734.969 1468.987 124.496 0.000 124.496 1344.491 0.93% v S&GAD Department 7 7 0 1 478.615 0.000 308.664 169.951 35.092 0.000 35.092 134.859 0.26% Sub Total (AL&E) 77 62 15 21 7622.839 0.000 3091.553 4531.286 982.137 0.000 982.137 3549.149 7.36% Part-II Energy Sector i Power 113 91 22 36 21449.245 0.000 6926.733 14523.512 3575.752 0.000 3575.752 10947.760 26.81% Sub Total (Energy) 113 91 22 36 21449.245 0.000 6926.733 14523.512 3575.752 0.000 3575.752 10947.760 26.81% Part-III NRM Sector i Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries 50 43 7 21 2152.258 0.000 884.140 1268.118 430.654 0.000 430.654 837.464 3.23% ii Forestry, Wild life & Environment 21 17 4 10 987.959 0.000 368.873 619.086 231.563 0.000 231.563 387.523 1.74% iii Minerals, Mines ,Industries & Commerce 16 14 2 12 465.400 0.000 180.654 284.746 189.468 0.000 189.468 95.278 1.42% iv Food Department 7 3 4 0 260.480 0.000 94.795 165.685 36.900 0.000 36.900 128.785 0.28% v Tourism, Culture & Youth Development 39 28 11 12 1974.801 0.000 375.372 1599.429 303.661 0.000 303.661 1295.768 2.28% Sub Total (NRM) 133 105 28 55 5840.898 0.000 1903.834 3937.064 1192.246 0.000 1192.246 2744.818 8.94% Part-IV Social Sector i Education 202 149 53 60 7403.776 0.000 1751.839 5651.937 1556.623 0.000 1556.623 4095.314 11.67% ii Health 96 73 23 25 3396.678 0.000 858.292 2538.386 1021.128 0.000 1021.128 1517.258 7.66% Sub Total (Social Sector) 298 222 76 85 10800.454 0.000 2610.131 8190.323 2577.751 0.000 2577.751 5612.572 19.33% SECTOR WISE SUMMARY OF ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADP 2017-18 S.No Name of Sector Number On- New Targe Approved Cost Exp.
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