Punjab Assembly passed Rs 80.38 billion plus supplementary budget here on Saturday. Opposition benches due to excessive spending of the government boycotted the supplementary budget proceedings. Legislators in the session stressed that better endeavour should have been made on improvement of irrigation in the province. They lamented that farmers were facing difficulties in selling their products.
Legislators discussing the agriculture scenario stated that farmers were not getting the rates fixed by government on sugar cane and wheat. A legislator speaking on a point of order stated that government wanted to buy electricity from India. Member citing Kashmir and other unsettled issues stated that solution of these issues also needed to be addressed. Finance Minister Mujtiba Shuja-ur-Rehman said that provincial government in the next financial year would bring 30 percent reduction in its expenses.
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