The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has presented Rs1,332 billion balanced budget for financial year 2022-23 including an allocation of Rs1,108.9 billion for settled districts and Rs223.1 billion for merged tribal districts.
While presenting the budget in the KP assembly Finance Minister Taimur Salim Jhagra said that the volume of the current budget is Rs913.8 billion including Rs789.8 billion for settled districts and Rs124 billion for merged tribal districts.
He said total development budget of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was Rs418.2 billion including Rs319.2 billion for settled districts and Rs99 billion for merged tribal districts.
Regarding revenue and receipts collection, the minister said that total receipts was estimated at Rs1,332 billion including Rs750.9 billion to be collected from federal taxes receipts. He said Rs31 billion would be collected through oil and gas royalty and surcharge and Rs61.9 billion through net hydel power in accordance of MoU 2015-16 and arrears.
The minister said Rs85 billion would be collected through provincial tax and non-tax revenue, Rs4.3 billion under the head of foreign program assistance (FPA) for settled districts and Rs208.7 billion grant for merged tribal districts besides Rs212.7 billion receipts through other resources.
In addition the Finance Minister said that Rs447.9 billion would be spent on salaries including Rs372.1 billion in settled districts and Rs75.8 billion through merged tribal districts while Rs107 billion on pension including Rs106 billion in settled districts and Rs1 billion in merged tribal districts.
Besides salaries, he said Rs247.4 billion would be spent on O&M, emergency and district expenditures, Rs111.4 billion on others current expenditures while volume of provincial development program including accelerated development program budget was Rs241 billion including Rs185 billion for settled districts and Rs56 billion for merged tribal districts while volume of total development budget was Rs383.5 billion including 319.2 billion for settled districts and Rs64.3billion for merged tribal districts.
Under foreign program assistance, Rs93.2 billion would be spent including Rs88.9 billion for settled districts and Rs4.3 billion for merged tribal districts while 8.3 billion would be received through Public Sector Development Program for settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Minister said that Rs26,458 million would be spent on agriculture, Rs4,191 million on Aukaf, Religious Affairs, Rs73 million on Bureau of Statistics, Rs71,653 million on communication and works, Rs227,087 million for elementary and secondary education, Rs29,203 million on energy and power, Rs4,191 million for environment, Rs1,607 million for excise and taxation, Rs32,446 million through finance, Rs6,433 million through forestry, Rs6,655 million through general administration, Rs205,725 million for health, Rs34,191 million through higher education, Rs101,572 million for home and Rs823 million for housing sectors.
Likewise, Rs4,926 million were allocated for industries, Rs1,808 million for information and public relations, Rs2,990 million for information technology, Rs25,725 million for irrigation, Rs1,033 million for labour, Rs14,377 million for law and justice, Rs22,337 million for local government, Rs1,426 million for mines and mineral, Rs64,372 million for planning and development, Rs3,616 million for population welfare, Rs23,071 million for public health engineering, Rs30,003 million for relief, rehabilitation and settlement, Rs3,045 million revenue and estate, Rs6,068 million for social welfare, Rs22,017 million for sports, culture and tourism, Rs2,849 million through technical education, Rs12,151 million for transport and Rs392 million for Zakat and Usher.
