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NWFP budget highlights - Naveed Yaseen - 06-18-2009 06:01 AM
PESHAWAR: Following are the salient features of the NWFP budget 2009-10 presented in the NWFP Assembly here Wednesday.
• Total volume of the budget is Rs214.2 billion.
• The Annual Development Programme of Rs51.1 billion.
• Rs6 billion allocated for education.
• Rs2 billion kept for rehabilitation of IDPs.
• Current expenditure amounted to Rs80 billion.
• 624 old and 217 new schemes to be completed.
• Local government will receive Rs1.34 billion.
• Total deficit stood at Rs3.1 billion.
• Rs4.33 billion has been allocated for health sector.
• Highway sector will receive Rs5.13 billion.
• Agriculture department will get Rs790 billion.
• Rs1.24 billion allocated for Tameer-e-Sarhad Programme.
• Tourism sector will get Rs330 billion.
• Provincial receipts stood at Rs7.5 billion.
• Profit from hydel power generation stood at Rs6 billion.
• 4,421 additional posts will be created in Police Department.
• Rs332.662 million allocation for Sports Department.
• Establishment of Urban Model Township, Green Peshawar Project.
• Changes in hydel policy 2006.
• 11 new schemes will be completed in hydel power sector.
• Rs441.308 million allocated for hydel sector in ADP.
• Irrigation sector will receive Rs1406.496 million for 33 ongoing and 19 new schemes.
• Under ADP, 42 ongoing and 18 new schemes will be completed in the industrial sector.
• Rs332.622 million allocated for preservation of Gandhara civilisation.
• Rs80 million allocated for developing tourist spots.
• Provincial Finance Commission will get Rs1341.735 million for district governments.
• 11 research and development schemes will be completed.
• Rs7.772 billion allocated for completion of 38 regional development schemes.
• Unattractive Area Allowance (UAA) of government employees increased.
• Rs2 billion allocated for subsidy on wheat.
• UAA of employees from BPS-1 to 15 increased from Rs150 to Rs1,700.
• UAA will be applicable on employees of remote areas, including Chitral and Kohistan.
• Establishment of Provincial Employment Cell with initial grant of Rs500 million.
• Salaries and pension increased by 15 per cent.
• Government employees from BPS-1 to 16 exempted from professional tax.
• Establishment of Benazir Shaheed Hospital and Bacha Khan Medical College in Mardan.
• Free treatment of hepatitis patients.
• Free provision of fund for construction Frontier House At Gwadar.
• 150 new schools to be set up.
• 200 CNG buses will be purchased.
• Rs500 million for poverty reduction plan.
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