KP Assembly approves supplementary budget
June 30, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday approved the supplementary budget for the current financial year 2020-21 unanimously.
The demands for grant of about Rs109.118 billion supplementary budget was presented on June 18 in the provincial assembly. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Salim Jhagra informed the House that the federal government would pay Rs36 billion in installments on account of net hydel profit to the province.
A total of 55 demands for grant were tabled and approved for the expenditure and revenue shown in the supplementary budget for different departments and sectors. Criticising performance of different provincial departments, the opposition members withdrew their cut motions and all the demands for grant were passed unanimously.
MPA Inayatullah Khan of the Jamaat-i-Islami started the debate on supplementary budget and regretted that major part of it was spent on non-development activities. Photo courtesy Abdul Majeed Goraya/File
PESHAWAR: Opposition in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday rejected the province’s Rs109 billion supplementary budget for the outgoing financial year unjustified and an additional burden on the ‘impoverished’ province and insisted that the presentation of such a large supplementary budget showed the failure of the government and poor planning of its departments.
The house, which met with Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani in the chair, began debate on the 2020-21 supplementary budget.
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Saturday passed, with a majority vote, the Finance Bill 2021-22 formally approving the provincial budget worth Rs1.18 trillion for the next financial.
PESHAWAR/LAHORE: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday approved the demands for grant worth Rs9.81billion sought by four departments.The assembly session chaired by Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani.
PESHAWAR/LAHORE: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday approved the demands for grant worth Rs9.81billion sought by four departments.The assembly session chaired by Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani.