The priorities committee meetings completed its deliberations for the allocation of budget, (recurrent and development), to ministries and divisions for 2012-13. The five-day meeting of the committee started on Monday at the ministry of finance to finalise budget ceilings of as many as 64 ministries and divisions after consultations with them.
The finance division directed all ministries and divisions for one-page details of the services (output), which would be delivered by them in the next three years. Development and current allocations for the ministry of information and broadcasting, housing and works and defence were discussed on Monday.
Also on Monday, Allocations for Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, PM Inspection Commission, Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority, President''s Secretariat Public, Interior Division, Board of Investment, Establishment Division, Auditor-General of Pakistan, Controller General of Accounts, Military Secretary to the PM (PM''s Secretariat Internal) and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) were discussed.