NWFP budget highlights

[Naveed Yaseen]

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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