{"id":3606,"date":"2019-05-25T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2019-05-25T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:37:07","slug":"france-provides-euros-94-010-m-for-extension-of-water-resources-phase-ii-project-in-faisalabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/france-provides-euros-94-010-m-for-extension-of-water-resources-phase-ii-project-in-faisalabad\/","title":{"rendered":"France Provides Euros 94.010 M for Extension of Water Resources phase-II Project, in Faisalabad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabas;On 23 rd May 2019, in the presence of Mr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, Mr. Noor Ahmed, Secretary of<br \/>\nEconomic Affairs Division (EAD), Mr Marc Barety, French Ambassador, and Mr. Jacky<br \/>\nAmprou, Country Director of the French Agency for Development (AFD), the government<br \/>\nof Pakistan and the AFD signed the Credit Facility Agreement worth Euros 94.010m for<br \/>\nExtension of Water Resources phase-II Project, in Faisalabad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3608\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3608\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ADVISER TO THE PRIME MINISTER ON FINANCE, REVENUE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHEIKH RECEIVING FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN, MR. MARC BARETY, AT FINANCE MINISTRY, ISLAMABAD ON MAY 23, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Groundwater quality of Faisalabad city is brackish. The proposed project will augment<br \/>\nFaisalabad Water and Sanitation agency capacity to provide 113500m 3 \/day of additional<br \/>\nclean drinking water to the citizens of Faisalabad through surface water treatment plant.<br \/>\nThe project will contribute towards the Government of Pakistan\u2019s strategy for improving the<br \/>\nurban services and health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>France, through the French Agency for Development, is providing technical and financial<br \/>\nsupport in energy and urban development sector in Pakistan, where Euros 610 million<br \/>\nfinancial support has been committed since 2016. This project is AFD\u2019s first investment in<br \/>\nwater and sanitation sector opening avenues for more collaboration with the government of<br \/>\nPakistan in this field.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary EAD thanked the French government and AFD for extending the financial<br \/>\nassistance to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3607\" style=\"width: 871px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3607\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"871\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak.jpg 871w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak-696x567.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/france-pak-516x420.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ADVISER TO THE PRIME MINISTER ON FINANCE, REVENUE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHEIKH, WITNESSING THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT WORTH EUROS 94.010M FOR EXTENSION OF WATER RESOURCES FAISALABAD PHASE-II PROJECT, SIGNED BY SECRETARY, EAD AND FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN AT ISLAMABAD ON MAY 23, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabas;On 23 rd May 2019, in the presence of Mr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, Mr. Noor Ahmed, Secretary of Economic Affairs Division (EAD), Mr Marc Barety, French Ambassador, and Mr. Jacky Amprou, Country Director of the French Agency for Development (AFD), the government of Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}