Quetta: The Balochistan budget for financial year 2017-18 with a total outlay of Rs. 321.67 billion will be unveiled on June 15th.
The Provincial Finance department sources on Monday said that Rs80 billion have been proposed to be allocated under development head while Rs 38 billion each will be set-aside for education and law and order departments in the next provincial budget.
The health department will be receiving an amount of Rs 35 billion in the provincial budget for 2017-18. The province will have revenue of Rs 24.1 billion under oil and gas surcharge while remaining funds will be coming from central divisible pool. An amount of Rs 76 billion has also been proposed to set aside under newly created Chief Minister Divisional Development programme. 6,000 new vacancies will also be created in the various provincial departments during the next fiscal year.
It is quite weird on part of the provincial government that it had to reschedule the unveiling of annual budget for a third time in a row As per the provincial government’s first announcement the provincial budget for next monetary year had to be presented on June 9 last which had been postponed allegedly due to disagreement over distribution of development funds between partners in the provincial government.
