Reported by Dawn News: Saleem Shahid
QUETTA: On Thursday, the Balochistan assembly handed supplementary grants worth Rs 47 billion for the outgoing financial year after the fiscal year 2024-25 budget was pending approval.
Finance Minister Mir Shoaib Nosherwani showcased 45 grant requests in the house only three days before the back of the Financial year 2023-24.
Supplementary grants are shown when a state yields to encounter its expenses from the amount authorized in the budget.
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Since rival members forced no cut motion, all 45 orders for non-development additional payments were consented to.
The maximum amount, Rs13.78 billion, was invested in allowances and other incentives for the Balochistan state’s former workers.
The extra portion invested in the paychecks of Balochistan police and Levies force was also accepted, along with Rs5.93bn for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority expenses during the fiscal year 2023-24.
There were no requirements for expansion institutions grants as much of the money administered for PSDP for the fiscal year 2023-24 was not invested.
At the beginning, during the general budget speech, Maulvi Noorullah, an independent MPA from Qila Saifullah, summoned for the budget “unfair and unjust”. “The 700,000 population of my constituency has been neglected in roads, sanitation, forests, environment and education schemes.”
