PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa has approved its budget for province for fiscal year 2013-14.
Giving detail of the budget, Senior Minister Sirajul Haq says the budget has been distributed into three categories: welfare, development and administrative.
The allocation for each is as follow:
- About Rs. 162 billion for welfare
- About Rs. 118 billion for development
- About Rs. 63 billion for administrative
Siraj says that Madinah is the model state for our government in the province.
19 Unique Points
Following are 19 unique points of the budget from KPK government:
- Land record is being computerized
- Thana Culture to be change right from the police station
- Public can lodge FIR on telephone and Online and they do not need to go to police station
- 11,000 villages to be developed
- 10 small hydro power projets announced
- Mobile courts announced for the province
- Over 57 projects of sports, culture and tourism to get over Rs. 100 million
- Special package for Kalash Valley minority community announced
- For environment protection, the KPK government sets aside Rs. 1.27 billion
- Over 157 projects for road infrastructure to get over Rs. 10 billion
- Mass Transit System for Peshawar is undergoing planning phase
- Subsidy of about Rs. 2 billion has been reserved on wheat
- Pension, minimum, increased Rs. 5,000 from Rs. 3,000
- Clean water project to be completed
- Peshawar to be made ‘City of Flowers’
- Green Peshawar Project announced to overhaul the city for which Rs. 1 billion has been reserved
- Traffic projects to completed within current fiscal year to ensure smooth flow of traffic in Peshawar
- Peshawar Uplift Project announced for which Rs. 4 billion allocated
- Welfare projects for specials persons, educational institutes, beggars, women and kids announced
Some Other Vital Measures
- Monitoring system comprising up to 500 monitors
- Free medical treatment to 800 cancer and 26,000 TB patients
- Self Sufficiency scheme to be launched under which Rs. 50,000 to 2,00,000 loan free loans will be given
- Position holder student to get scholarships up to Rs. 360 million
- Rs. 500 million allocated for Cancer patients
- Rs. 100 million set aside for Hepatitis patients
- Rs. 3 billion have been reserved for Education Emergency and Improvement Proram
- As many as 15 percent increase has been made
- Minimum wage to be Rs. 10,000
A brief glance of the important accounts of the budget is as follow:
No |
Head |
Amount |
1 |
Total Volume |
About Rs. 344 Billion |
2 |
Law and order |
Rs. 52 billion |
3 |
Deficit |
Rs. 0 Â billion |
4 |
Uplift Projects |
Rs. 118 billion |
5 |
ADP |
Rs. 118 billion |
6 |
Unemployed Youth |
Berozgari Allowance |
 7 |  Health n Education | Upto 8 increase |
8 | Electricity Projects | Rs. 2 to 3 billion |
9 | Tax | No New Tax |
10 | Terrorism Funds | Rs. 22 billion |
11 | Current Expenditure | Rs. 222 billion |
12 | Foreign Funds | Rs. 35 billion |
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