PESHAWAR: Adviser to the chief minister on finance Muzzammil Aslam on Friday that the provincial government was reducing its expenses as the federal government was not clearing its dues.
During a post-budget news conference here, Mr Aslam complained that the province hadn’t received a single penny from the centre as net hydel profit.
He said the provincial government would receive Rs1.2 trillion from the federal government in the next fiscal year, while the province was likely to generate Rs93 billion in revenue by itself.
The aide to the chief minister said the provincial government would get Rs122 billion in foreign loans for development schemes and recommended a 10 per cent increase in the basic salary of its employees.
fiscal year from the federal divisible pool and under the National Finance Commission Award and what decision the Council of Common Interest would take.
Dr Khan said provincial minister for finance Aftab Alam Afridi had assumed about the funds to be given by the federal government to the province.
Accompanied by Pakistan Peoples Party leader Arbab Zarak and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Zahir Khan, the opposition leader said the federal government wanted to pass the budget before June 3, in a reference to a Supreme Court hearing about the oath-taking of the KP Assembly’s reserved seats for women and non-Muslims.
He called the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit a “white elephant” and said the government had allocated Rs3 billion as a subsidy for the bus service, though the money was enough to construct 250 schools in the province.