PESHAWAR
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak on Monday said the provincial government would unveil the 5th tax free, balanced and pro-poor annual budget on June 7. The provincial budget would be different from the budget presented by the centre in terms of giving more relief for the poor, he said, while presiding over a high level consultative meeting on the provincial budgetary proposals and annual development programme at Chief Minister House Peshawar.
The chief minister said the provincial government would enhance the salaries and fringe benefits of the salaried class. The government would also work on the capacity building of the salaried class so that they would carry forward the agenda for empowering the poor.
Pervez Khattak also referred to certain steps in the context of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), adding it would give boom to industrialization in the province.
We are working on improving the basic elements required for investment in the province. He said.
He said a coordination committee comprising Home, Police and Planning and Development departments had already been constituted that would coordinate for efficient security to the investors. These efforts, he added, would enhance the security level for the investors and would also speed up economic oriented activities and creating more jobs for jobless in the province.
The Chief Minister also dwelt in length over the prioritization of education and health sectors followed by other social sectors adding that it indicated our tenacity to the cause of the poor.
The meeting had a detailed review of the ADP and approved the developmental sketch of the schemes. The meeting approved 58 new and ongoing schemes for education including the establishment of 10 new postgraduate colleges.
The Chief Minister approved transportation and two public libraries in the new developmental schemes for colleges in the province. The missing facilities in the colleges were properly taken care of in the new schemes of thing, the meeting was told.
The meeting approved 30 schemes for agriculture sector development which included 17 ongoing and 13 new schemes. The Chief Minister directed to focus on agriculture sector development including conversion of tube wells to solarization. There would be 36 schemes in forest department in the new ADP.
Chief Minister Khattak directed for the efficient management and development mechanism for the national parks in the province. The meeting approved the third phase of the billion tree tsunami and approved twelve schemes for the food department. The meeting gave a nod to 53 schemes for the youth in sports, tourism, culture etc.
Pervez Khattak said that from the new fiscal year, his government would restart giving monthly stipend to the poets and literary figures upto 30,000 rupees per month.
The meeting approved 59 schemes for the Home, 19 schemes for Hajj and Religious affairs. The project for solarising of mosques was being shifted to energy and power department and the Energy and Power department would have 28 ongoing and 26 new schemes. In the wake of energy crisis, schemes in public health, street and road lights were being shifted to solarising.
Provincial Ministers, MPAs and Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Israr etc. attended.
