The federal government has released an amount of Rs 45,481.12 million to execute development schemes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) during last three years.
The budget is distributed amongst seven agencies and six frontier regions (FRs) of FATA on criteria approved for the purpose.
Giving year-wise statistics of the budget, sources at the ministry of states and frontier regions on Sunday said of the total Rs 11,823.75 million funds were released in 2012-13, Rs 16,577.37 million in 2013-14 and during 2014-15 the government released Rs 17,080 million for FATA development.
The sources said the government allocated an amount of Rs 48,003 million during the last three years.
They said funds for FATA development and establishment expenses were provided by the federal government, however, these funds were released as a one liner in federal public sector development programme (PSDP) directly to the FATA Secretariat and the ministry of SAFRON had no role in the allocation, distribution, execution or monitoring of projects in FATA.
The development of FATA totally depends on availability of funds which is being provided by the federal government in shape of FATA annual development programme (ADP).
Moreover, the sources said that as per standing policy the new schemes were identified and selected in FATA ADP with due consultations of all stakeholders. During last year 2014-15, a total 941 schemes (595 ongoing and 346 new) were reflected in FATA ADP, out of which 215 schemes were reported as completed and remaining were carried over in FATA ADP 2015-16 under ongoing programme.
