Pre-budget consultative workshop held in Balochistan

Workship held to solicit suggestions and input from the public for the next fiscal year

QUETTA: The Balochistan Finance Department, in collaboration with Governance Public Policy (GPP), held a pre-budget consultative workshop here on Monday to solicit suggestions and input from the public for the next fiscal year.

Speaking on the occasion, Finance Secretary Noor-ul-Haq Baloch elaborated on provincial development and the budget, saying that the Balochistan government annually spent Rs419 billion on the people yet the desired development goals are not attained due to misdirected development projects, adding that it was for this very reason that these workshops were held so that public funds could be used where needed. He was also of the view that the non-development budget’s burden on the provincial government impeded development in the province and that, in the absence of the private sector, the Balochistan government also had the difficult task of annually creating as many as eight to ten thousand jobs to alleviate unemployment. Had there been a vibrant provincial private sector, he said, the burden on the government could have been lessened to a great extent.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 4^th, 2020.