The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed the Finance Bill 2019 with only one amendment regarding withdrawal of sales tax on intercity AC buses in a bid to provide relief to the people. The schedule of authorized expenditure for the year 2019-20 was laid in the House. It gave extension to the ordinances through motion under rule 127 of the rule of procedure of the Punjab Assembly which includes: The Provincial Employees Social Security (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (1 of 2019), The Punjab Zakat and Ushr (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (11 of 2019), The Punjab Khal Panchayat Ordinance 2019 (111 of 2019) and The Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (IV of 2019).
The House also passed a resolutions under 128 (2) (a) of the constitution for extending the Provincial Employees Social Security (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (1 of 2019) promulgated on 16 April 2019 for a further period of 90 with effect from July 2019, extending the period of validity of Punjab Zakat and Ushr (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (11 of 2019) promulgated on 18 April 2019 for a further period of 90 days with effect from 17 July 2019, extending the Punjab Khal Panchayat Ordinance 2019 (3 of 2019) for a further period of 90 days promulgated on 22 May 2019 with effect from August 20, 2019, and extending the period of validity of Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 (iv of 2019) for a further period of 90 days promulgated on 12 June 2019 with effect from 10 September 2019.
The Punjab Water Bill 2019 and The Punjab Sentencing Bill 2019 were introduced in the House while the Punjab Alternate Dispute Resolution Bill 2019 (Bill No 13 of 2019) was pended by the speaker.
Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar was present in the House on the occasion of the passage of Finance Bill 2019. Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz remained absent from the House during the passage of Finance Bill.
Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat while talking to media outside Punjab Assembly congratulated the people of Punjab on the passage of budget 2019-20. He said opposition claimed on the start of the budget session that they will not allow the passage of budget. He also said that opposition is so weak that during the passage of Finance Bill opposition parties did not even raise a slogan against the bill.
The opposition claimed that this was not the pro-poor budget but they did not raise the slogan in favor of poor people of the province and the bill was passed just in 15 minutes.
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