Azm-e-nau Budget: K-P presents Rs404.80b budget

K-P govt increases development budget by 21% over last year.

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhawa government on Saturday presented a provincial budget of Rs404.80 billion budget for year 2014-15 with an ambitious Rs139.80 billion component for development and containing a 10 per cent increase in the salaries of the government employees.

Presenting the annual budget in the provincial assembly, provincial Finance Minister Sirajul Haq said that the annual receipts and expenditures have been pitched at Rs 404.80 billion, which is 18 per cent higher than the outgoing fiscal year.

Rs265 billion have been allocated for the current revenue expenditures. Giving details of the revenue receipts to be secured in next fiscal year, Haq said that Rs227.120 billion would be provided to the province from the federal taxes, which will be 14.55 per cent more than the outgoing fiscal year. The province also expects to receive Rs27.292 billion as charges incurred in war against unrest. Further, the province is expected to generate Rs29.260 billion from royalty on gas and petroleum produced in the southern areas showing an increase of 6.4 per cent over the current revenue generation.

The province will raise Rs12 billion from general services on sales tax, showing a 100 per cent increase over the current fiscal year. The province owned receipts have been estimated at Rs13.93 billion.

The revenue from province's owned hydel power generation has been estimated at Rs2.85 billion which is 21 per cent higher than the outgoing fiscal year. The total volume of the province owned revenue receipts has been estimated at Rs28.787 billion, 70 per cent higher than the current fiscal year.

Haq told the house that the province expects to receive Rs12 billion as net hydel profit while the federal government has assured to pay Rs32.27 billion in the next fiscal year as arrears against net hydel profit.

Other miscellaneous generation in the province is expected to generate up to Rs720 million, while Rs35.350 billion expected to be obtained from foreign project assistance.

The budget also makes room for the creation of city traffic police that will be modeled on the existing motorway police.

Budget Overview

Increase of 21% in development funds from last year

14% increase in foreign aid of which 79% are grants

Rs17.9 billion for alleviating poverty (ghurbatmeintakhfeef)

Development budget summary

Education

Previous scholarship program for Grade 6 to 8 students in seven districts will include grade 9 and 10 students this fiscal year and Rs200 million has been allocated.

Rs15m for allowance of women education supervisors in remote areas

Rs100m for sports equipment across province’s schools

Rs360m for Story da Pakhtunkwa program which awards outstanding metric and intermediate students

Rs500m for Iqrafarogh-e-taleem voucher scheme for poor students

Rs100m for monitoring govt schools performance across province

Rs1b for new Rokhana Pakhtunkhwa Programme which will provide financial assistance on UC level to able and poor students who are not in govt schools

Rs240m for promoting girls education in Kohistan and Torghar

Rs2b for additional rooms, toilets, building renovations, power/water connections with community collaboration

Rs500m for CM Endowment Fund for deserving university students

Rs2.5b for free academic books (darsikutb) till intermediate level

Rs1.75b to give status of primary schools to 100 madrassas

Health

Rs500m for treatment of patients of cancer and other fatal diseases

Rs400m for helping treat malaria and dengue

Rs380m for tuberculosis treatment

Rs300m for programme to provide special allowance to reduce child mortality rates, similarly Rs200m for Hosla Afzai of mothers to complete injection courses for their children.

Rs25m for free insulin for sugar patients

Rs1b to provide emergency services facilities at all hospitals of Peshawar and DHQs of the province

Rs500m for initiating BSc and MSc programmes for nurses in province

Rs225m or health insurance schemes for low-income households in Mardan, Malakand, Chitral and Kohat

Rs910m for aRs22b fund aided by the federal govt, Australia and UK for continuing various vaccination, nutrition and child and mother health programmes

Rs60m for improving healthcare delivery in Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Swat, Haripur, Abbottabad, Kohat, Mardan, Malakand and Chitral

Rs1.5b with support of World Bank for health programmesin Kohistan, Battagram, Torghar, Buner, Lower Dir and DI Khan

Rs100m for a mobile medical service in remote areas of the province

Social welfare, special education & women development

Rs10.7m for school for children deprived of hearing and speech in TakhtBhai

Rs1m for SOMETHING in Charsadda, Swabi, Bannu and Karak

Rs8m for establishing 25 Dastakari (skill)centres in the province

Rs36m for establishing drug rehab treatment centresin Peshawar district

Rs110m for establishing special schools in Mardan, Kohat, Lower Dir, Kohistan, Buner and Battagram for hearing deprived people

Rs700m in Tanzeem Alsaail and Almehroom (deprived) programme for free treatment of 50,000 patients, scholarships for 7,000 students and skill training to 1,400 people

Population welfare

Rs89m for establishing 100 family planning centres in the province

Tourism and Sports

Rs70m for establishing youth centres and promoting youth activities at district levels across province

Rs2.26b for establishing sports grounds across province

Rs20m for talent programmes of all sports

Some figure for schemes in MalamJabba, Chitral, Galiyat, Naran and Kohistan with private sector cooperation

Minorities

Rs4m for welfare projects for minorities

Rs5m for scholarships for students

Rs60m for renovation of Churches, Temples, etc

Urban development

Rs50m for establishing sasta bazaars across province

Rs300m for establishing bus terminals at selected districts

Rs750m for mass transit system in Peshawar

Rs55m for beautification of Peshawar

Rs1b for beautification for all divisional headquarters

Agriculture

Rs150m for 100 solar-powered pumps in the province

Rs200m for dairy development programmes at the community level

Rs15m for building growing capacity of small farmers

Rs20m for the feasibility report for possible breeding of MahiParwariin K-P’s rivers and lakes

Industries

Rs100 million set aside for skill development training for 18-25 year olds

Rs120 allocated for ‘Youth Challenge Fund’ programme

Rs300million to be given in loans to promote solar energy

Rs1 billion earmarked for interest-free loans under independence (khudkafalat) scheme

Rs600 million for (fanni taleem) art or maybe technical education for youth

Rs1 billion allocated to a scheme of long-term loans to promote industry in K-P

Rs1 billion to be spent on the establishment of a technical university

Rs200 million allocated to reviving/maintaining industrial estates in DI Khan, Bannu, Mansehra and Kohat

Rs200 million set aside to establish mineral industrial estate in Chitral

Rs200 million to spent to establishing a small industrial estate in Abbottabad

Regional development 

Rs1.7 billion allocated for development work in Kohistan, Torghar and other under-developed southern districts

Rs1.14 billion allocated for clean drinking water and drainage programmes in Peshawar

Energy and electricity

Rs2 million initially earmarked for setting up an oil refinery in Kohat, the project’s estimated cost is Rs700 million

Rs7.52 billion is being spent to build eight hydel power stations in K-P which will generate 659 megawatts

Rs200 million to be spent on a project which will use solar power and alternate energy sources to provide electricity to villages that do not have it.

Rs500 million allocated to run irrigation schemes by using solar power

Rs4.5 billion allocated to set up 365 small power stations

Roads

Rs2.30 billion allocated to purchase land for the construction of the Swat Expressway

Rs6 billion set aside to construct Abbottabad Bypass Road

Rs7 billion allocated for construction of northern part of Ring Road

Rs500 million earmarked to build Hayatabad detour road

Environment

Rs1 billion set aside for ‘Billion tree tsunami campaign’ scheme

A new project in collaboration with private sector to dispose of waste

Food

Rs5 billion to be given in subsidies to provide food to the poor

Labour

Rs16 million earmarked to establish a unit in the labour department to end child labour

Law and justice

Rs5 million set aside to set up mobile courts across K-P

Entry

Rs1.5 billion earmarked for ‘Safe city plan’ in Peshawar

Rs200 million earmarked to establish check points (mehfooz hassaar) in Peshawar’s outskirts

Rs125 million to be released to establish a warden system in Peshawar to regulate traffic

Rs500 million will be spent to set up model police stations across K-P

Rs150 million earmarked to set up investigation schools in order to improve investigation system

Science and Technology

Rs250 million allocated to provide facilities to citizens

Rs185 million set aside for arms licences and property tax

Rs30 million set aside for providing computer training to women