The Provincial Minister for Finance, Taimur Khan Jhagra, on Tuesday presented a Supple-mentary Budget of Rs 27.925 billion for outgoing financial year 2018-19. Presenting the supplementary budget, the provincial minister said the current revenue expenditure in the budget for financial year 2018-19 was estimated at Rs 430 billion. But, in the revised expenditure it remained nearly Rs 403 billion that was less than the total revised current expenditure.
However, in cases of some grants objects higher amount was spent or within or new allocations have been for the new objects due to which the volume of the current expenditure of the supplementary budget reached Rs 12.827 billion, whose ratification from the budget was necessary. The details of an additional expenditure reveal that an amount of Rs 55.513 million was incurred by the provincial assembly, Home Affairs (Rs 1.03 million), Administration & Justice (Rs 1.1653 billion), Communication & Works (Rs 20.280 million), Public Health Engineering (Rs 1.067 billion), Wildlife (Rs 82.252 million), Irrigation (343.776 million), Pension (Rs 9.342 billion), Debt Servicing/ Loan from federal government (Rs 810 million) and another miscellaneous amount of Rs 4370/- respectively.
The amount was spent on the purchase of plants and machinery for provincial assembly, payment of allowances, postage & telegraph, utilities, Traveling Allowance (TA), stationery and repair of equipment and maintenance by Home Affairs Department.
The Administration of Justice Department was released an amount of Rs 1.165 billion for creation of new vacancies for Peshawar High Court, district judiciary and newly merged districts (NMDs), provision of grants to bar association, repair of building, TA, POL and purchase of stationery, computers and IT equipment, payment of rent, utility bills, purchase of vehicles and furniture and other expenditures.
The highest amount of Rs 9.342 billion was released for payments in the head of increase in pension and payment of pension while another additional amount of Rs 810 million was released for retiring of the loans obtained from the federal government.
Regarding supplementary development budget, the provincial minister said annual development budget for the financial year 2018-19 was Rs 108.90 billion that after a revision climbed to Rs 121.16 billion that shows an increase of Rs 12.26 billion. However, the federal government provided Rs 3.498 billion for the schemes initiated under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and the provincial government additional funds for timely completion and acceleration of work on schemes. Therefore, for the purpose, the provincial government was presenting a supplementary development budget of Rs 15.097 billion.
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