Fata to get Rs8.6bn for ADP schemes
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas will get Rs8.662 billion for the Annual Development Programme for financial year 2008-09, showing an increase of 30 per cent over the previous year, officials said. The size of last year's ADP was Rs6.60 billion. Officials said 77 per cent of the new ADP funds would go to ongoing development schemes in the seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions and the remaining amount would be spent on new schemes. The ADP is likely to be presented to NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani in the next couple of days for approval.