A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar in Islamabad on Saturday.
The meeting approved 11 projects pertaining to various sectors, ranging from transport to communications and the environment.
The meeting was attended by the minister for planning, SAPM Tariq Bajwa, ministers from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, various federal secretaries from the concerned ministries, and provincial heads of the development departments.
The committee approved revised PC-1 of the Dasu Hydropower Project; besides, it also approved a policy paper regarding training opportunities for up to 10,000 young engineers annually who would be placed in development projects.
