PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed 33 demands of grants worth Rs.111.7 billion approximately of the budget for financial year 2015-16 as joint opposition continued boycott of the house proceedings against alleged rigging and mismanagement in the recent local bodies’ polls.
The house Friday resumed proceedings with the presentation of the demands for grants for 33 departments and heads. Due to the boycott of the opposition, cut motions of the opposition legislators rendered lapse.
However, Bakht Bedar, Begum Meraj Hamayun and Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli presented their cut motions on the grants of certain departments and withdrawn it after getting assurances from ministers concerned.
The demands for grants passed by the provincial assembly were included an amount of Rs.177.38 million for provincial assembly, Administration Rs 2313.796 million, Finance, Treasury and Local Govt Audit Rs 3.90 billion, Planning and Development and Statistics Rs 259.67 million, Information Technology Rs 74.77 million, Revenue and Estate Rs 1.972 billion. Excise and Taxation Rs 592.81 million, Home Department Rs 1.434 billion, Prisons Rs 1.728 billion, Police Rs 32.745 billion, Law and Justice Rs 3.491 billion, Higher Education, Libraries and Achieves Rs 9.268 billion, Health Rs 21.576 billion, Communication and Works Rs 1.252 billion, Highways, Bridges and Buildings Rs 3.298 billion, Public Health Engineering Rs 1.571 billion, Local Govt and Rural Development Rs 8.297 billion, Agriculture Rs 2.348 billion, Livestock Rs 975.58 million, Cooperatives Rs 575.9 million, Environment and Forest Rs 1.837 billion, Wildlife Rs 382.44 million, Fisheries Rs 122.02 million, Irrigation Rs 3.6 million, Industries Technical Education and Commerce Rs 418.66 million, Mineral Development and Inspectorate of Mines Rs 503.22 million, Government Printing Press Rs 128.2 million, Population Welfare Rs 428.98 million, Vocational Education and Manpower Rs 1.754 billion, Labour Rs 297.49 million, Information and Public Relations Rs 216.18 million, Social Welfare, Special Education and Women Empowerment Rs 551.18 million and Zakat and Usher Rs 193.84 million respectively.
Bakht Bedar, Meraj Hamayun and Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli of QWP presented cut motions in the demands for grants of the departments of finance, IT, police, prisons, higher education and Zakat and Usher. However, the minister concerned defended the allocations and the legislators withdrawn their motions.
