IB wants Rs8.42m grant from govt.
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet will meet on Thursday (today) morning to review the request of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for over Rs8.42 million in technical supplementary grant for the current fiscal year.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has convened the ECC meeting which would take up a six-point agenda.
The committee is expect to approve the IB request for the technical supplementary grant.
Other agenda items include the approval of the proposal for declaring Angoor Ada as an authorised land route station for the overland trade through Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.
The meeting is also expect to give approval for the Ministry of Industries’ financing facility for electric bikes and electric rickshaws, and grant a technical supplementary grant of Rs2.6 million to the Ministry of Housing and Works.
The authorities would also approve the provision of a technical supplementary grant in the form of Pakistani rupees, utilizing the $1 million committed by the SAARC Development Fund for the National Health Services Regulation and Coordination.
Published in the Logical Baat, April 13,2023.
