Quetta: Balochistan’s budget of 750 billion rupees for the next financial year 2023-2024 has been presented, in which it has been proposed to increase the salaries of government employees by 35 percent and pension by 17.5 percent.
The meeting of the Balochistan Assembly for the budget of the next financial year was supposed to start at four o’clock, which started after a delay of about three hours under the chairmanship of Speaker John Muhammad Jamali. In which Provincial Finance Minister Zamrak Achakzai presented the budget for the next financial year.
He said that the total volume of the budget for the next financial year has been allocated 750 billion rupees, in which the volume of non-development expenditure is 437 billion, while the deficit is 49 billion, while 229 billion has been allocated for development funds and the volume of non-development budget is 437 billion. It is recommended to do.
Salaries and minimum wages and new posts
The provincial finance minister said that the salaries of government employees have been increased in the federal style, 35% from grade one to sixteen, while the salaries of officers from grade 17 to 22 have been increased by 30%, pension of government employees has been increased by 17.5%. has been added.
He said that the minimum wage of a laborer in the province has been fixed at 32 thousand rupees. The provincial finance minister said that 4389 new posts have also been proposed to be created in the new financial year.
Health
The government of Balochistan has allocated 5.5 billion rupees for the health card in the next financial year, and 51.73 billion rupees in the non-development fund for the health sector and 14 billion rupees for the development purpose.
Education
The provincial government has allocated more than 77 billion for the primary and secondary education sector. It is proposed to allocate 23 billion 63 crore rupees for colleges, higher and technical education.
Revenues
The Balochistan government has set an estimate of 57 billion rupees for revenue from taxes for the next fiscal year, 55 billion rupees from the needle gas lease, and 37 billion rupees for projects under foreign aid.
It is proposed to allocate 701 billion rupees for the total revenue of the province for the next financial year.
Agriculture
The provincial government has proposed to allocate 11 billion rupees for development works and 11 billion 87 crore rupees for non-development works in the agriculture sector.
Similarly, for local government and rural development, it has been proposed to allocate 11 billion rupees for development and 18 billion 38 billion rupees for non-development, while for communication and construction, 60 billion rupees have been proposed to be allocated for development and 13 billion 72 billion rupees for non-development. Is.
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