Punjab government announces Rs780b budget for 2012-13
Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, presenting the budget in the Punjab Assembly, announced a 20% increase in salaries of government employees and a 5% reduction in salaries of MPAs. Around 125,000 laptops will be distributed to students under the scheme of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
The finance minister, accusing the federal government of inefficiency, claimed that the provincial government met with a lot of hurdles in the energy sector and many projects were disrupted because of the federal government.
“We had allocated Rs9 billion for the energy sector last year, but the sector did not see any progress because of the federal government. We have tried to solve the issues ourselves. Now, we are allocating Rs10 billion for the energy sector.”
More details of the budget are as follows:
- Rs31.56 billion allocated for the education sector
- Rs32.38 billion allocated for general administration
- Rs 81.86 billion for public order and safety
- Rs1.5 billion allocated to courts to help them enhance their performance
- Rs2 billion allocated for initiation of Ashiana Schemes in four different cities
- Rs27.5 billion allocated to keep the price of wheat reasonable
- No new tax on the lower and middle class will be imposed
- Rs320 million allocated for minorities
- Rs2 billion allocated for eight more Danish Schools
- Rs6.5 billion allocated for Punjab education fund
- Solar panels worth Rs1 billion will be installed
- Rs62.9 billion allocated for infrastructure
- Rs15 billion allocated for the youth
- Rs11.1 billion allocated for services sector
- Rs2.4 billion allocated for IT sector
- Rs100 million allocated for Labour and HR department
- Rs6.2 billion for transport sector
- Rs16.5 billion allocated for health sector
- Rs1.8 billion allocated for sports
Correction: The budget allocations for Danish Schools and education sector were earlier misreported. The correction has been made.
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Education sector mentioned twice in the article with different amount.
Rs 20/per person/ per year on sports Rs 68/per person/ per year on Transport Rs 177/per person/ per year on health Rs 350/per person/ per year on education Rs 359/per person/ per year on administration Rs 698per person/ per year on improvement of infrastructure Rs 909per person/ per year on law and order
Education sector mentioned two times, which one is the real
Rs31.56 billion allocated for the education sector
Rs25.065 billion allocated for education sector
which one is actually allocated ?
27.5 Billion for Subsidy on Wheat and only 10 Billion for Energy Sector?? Mr. CM what are u doing at Minar-e-Pakistan??
Good step by Punjab Gov to decrease Cabinet salaries by 30%
Energy, food, transport prices increase on a daily basis. Does this budget matter?
Not a single penny have been allocated for the Research and Development in Science and Technology in Punjab and also no money have been allocated for any High Tech and advance research center in any University in Punjab and then we talked about Revolution in Pakistan?,
Just 10 billion for the electricity. What about Ch. Shujaat's proposal?
No tax on agriculture land lords and elite and also a tax free property business so that people like Malik Riaz will have enough money to do every type of corruption possible. Also no property tax on plazas and farm houses to facilitate the elite. The 1,5 billion for courts performance enhancement is a second name of bribery to courts and lawyers.
punjab govt.did not encourged their govt. employees in this budget. we were hoping that punjab govt. will not disappoint us, but we are totally disappointed by this budget
We can see poor planning in the education sector. In Punjab 50% percent of the population is under 18 and they obviously need proper schooling and only 31 billion have been allocated for them while one Danish school cost around 2 billion rupees and it house only less 3000 students so just imagine for less than 30,000 students of Danish school system 20 billion have been allocated. What a discrimination it is that for less than 30,000 students 20 billion and for another 4.5 crore students only 31 billion rupees??????...But in Pakistan every so called leader want his name in the projects and Shahbaz Sharif is spending 20 billion of Tax payer's money for his own fame unfortunately.
Lol... They care about laptops... but they dont care about education...
Education? Health? These need to be highlighted as these are no more a federal subjects therefore it would be important to see the allocations for both...