The National Assembly on Monday approved 48 demands for grants of Rs 1.53 trillion for Cabinet, Finance, Privatization, Establishment, Civil Aviation and other divisions while rejecting more than 523 Cut Motion of the opposition for the financial year ending on 30th June, 2017. Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar presented these demands in the House for approval. The House approved these Charged Expenditures included in the Demands for Grants and Appropriations for financial year 2016-17 after discussion.
The House approved demands grant of Rs 173.92 million for Cabinet, Rs 5.5 billion for Cabinet Division, Rs 245.33 million for Emergency Relief and Repatriation, Rs 5.39 billion for other expenditures of Cabinet Division, Rs 18.3 billion for Capital Administration and Development Division, Rs 2.3 billion for Establishment Division, Rs 550.7 million for Federal Services Commission, Rs 1.9 billion for other expenditure of Establishment Division, Rs 45 million for National Security Division.
The House approved Rs 86.1 million for Aviation Division, Rs 5.3 billion for Airport Security Force, Rs 1.01 billion for Metrology. The National Assembly also approved Rs 881.594 million for Prime Minister Office, Rs 239.8 million for Board of Investment, Rs 64.9 million for Prime Minister's Inspection Commission, Rs 8 billion for Atomic Energy, Rs 91.89 million for Stationery and Printing, Rs 1.569 billion for Finance Division, Rs 5.224 billion for Controller General of Accounts, Rs 536.14 million for Pakistan Mint, Rs 2.7 billion for National Savings, Rs 17.87 billion for other expenditure of Finance Division, Rs 240 billion for Superannuation Allowances and Pensions, Rs 80.8 billion for Grants-in-Aid and Miscellaneous Adjustments between the Federal and Provincial Governments and Rs 469.995 billion for Subsidies and Miscellaneous Expenditures.
The House approved Rs 58 billion demands of grants of Higher Education Commission, Rs 1.16 billion for Economic Affairs Division, Rs 147.69 million for Privatization Division, Rs 334.6 million for Revenue Division, Rs 3.69 billion for Federal Board of Revenue, Rs 6.92 billion for Customs, Rs 11.17 billion for Inland Revenue, Rs 2.2 billion for Statistics Division, Rs 18.4 billion of federal Miscellaneous Investments, Rs 27.36 billion for development expenditures of Cabinet Division, Rs 4.69 billion for development expenditure of Aviation Division, Rs 2.5 billion for development expenditure of Suparco, Rs 167.355 million for Development Expenditure of Finance Division, Rs 25.67 for other development expenditures, Rs 155 billion for development expenditure outside public Sector Development Programme, Rs 52.46 million for development expenditure of Economic Affairs Division, Rs 687.3 million for development expenditure of Revenue Division and Rs 200 million for development expenditure of Statistics Division.
The Lower House of the parliament also approved Rs 27.8 billion for capital outlay and development of Atomic Energy, Rs 261 million for Capital Outlay and Federal Investments, Rs 218.29 million for development loans and advances by Federal Government and Rs 118.85 billion for external development loans and advances by the Federal government.