SUKKUR: Administrator District Government Sukkur (DGS), Inamullah Dharejo presented a tax-free budget of Rs4,759.495 million of the district government for fiscal year 2011-12. In his budget speech the Administrator said that they will get Rs4 billion from the Sindh government as a single-line transfer. Sukkur expects to receive from the Sindh government its share of the agricultural Octroi Zilla Tax worth Rs57.218 million.
He said that the total outlay of the district budget was Rs4,759.495 million, while the projected expenditure is Rs4,757.665 million and thus total savings will be Rs1.82 million.
While talking about the expenditure, the Administrator said that the district government has allocated Rs2487.1 million for salaries and it will spend Rs394.139 million on the non-salary component. The total allocation for the annual development plan is Rs1,119.53 million. Out of this Rs519.53 million has been allocated for 416 ongoing schemes and Rs400 million has been allocated for new schemes. He added that Rs110 million has been directed towards the provision of natural gas to villages and Rs100 million have been kept for the citizen community board schemes.
He said that the salaries of employees have been increased according to government policy. The school specific non-salary component of the district government has increased more than six-fold, from Rs7 million to Rs48.415 million. Within this, Rs11 million has been allocated for books, stationery and computers for district libraries and for 32 girls middle schools.
According to Administrator Dharejo, the grant in aid for IBA, Sukkur has been increased from Rs1.5 million to Rs5 million, while Rs720,000 have been allocated to 20 students for merit-cum-poverty scholarships.
Two hundred and fifty-nine new posts for doctors and paramedics have been created and the budget for medicines has increased from Rs13.98 million to Rs15.338 million adding that funds of Rs1.6 million have been allocated for two ambulances and Rs5 million has been kept for the purchase of an ultrasound machine and other machinery.
He announced that a sum of Rs2.5 million has been kept for cultural festivals such as cattle shows.
The fund for disaster management has been increased from Rs13 million to Rs15 million. Besides this, he said, Rs500,000 has been allocated to the Jahez Fund for workers daughters.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
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