NA approves 54 supplementary demands for grants

Updated 26 Jun, 2023

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Sunday approved 54 supplementary demands for grants for fiscal year 2021-22 and 30 for fiscal year 2022-23 after voice voting in the house.

Minister for Finance and Revenue Ishaq Dar presented these supplementary demands for grants which were approved after voting.

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The supplementary demands for grants approved by the house for 2021-22 were related Emergency Relief and Repatriation; Intelligence Bureau; Board of Investment; Aviation division; National School of Public Policy; Civil Services Academy; Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division; Benazir Income Support Program; Climate Change division; Commerce division; Defence division; Federal Government Educational Institutions in Cantonments and Garrisons; Defence Services; Miscellaneous expenditure of Economic Affairs division; Power division; Petroleum division, Geological Survey of Pakistan; Federal Education and Professional Training division, Higher Education Commission (HEC); Finance division, other expenditure of Finance division, Controller General of Accounts, Superannuation Allowances and Pensions, Federal Board of Revenue; Foreign Affairs division, Foreign Missions; Housing and Works division; Industries and Production division; Information and Broadcasting division, Miscellaneous expenditure of Information and Broadcasting division; Information Technology and Telecommunication division; Interior division, other expenditure of Interior division, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Combined Civil Armed Forces; Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan division; Law and Justice division, Federal Shariat Court; National Food Security and Research division; National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination division; Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development division; Pakistan Railways; Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony division; Science and Technology division; States and Frontier Regions division; Federal Miscellaneous Investments and other loans and advances; development expenditure of Cabinet division; development expenditure of Climate Change division; development expenditure of Defence division; development expenditure of Higher Education Commission; development expenditure of Revenue division; development expenditure of Interior division, development Loans and Advances by Federal Government and Capital outlay on civil works.

The supplementary demands for grants for fiscal year 2022-23 were related to The demands for grants approved by the House were in respect of Cabinet; Intelligence Bureau; Prime Minister’s Office (Internal), National Disaster Management Authority; Climate Change division; Defence division, Defence services; Power division; Petroleum division; Foreign Affairs division, Foreign missions; Housing and Works division; Human Rights division; Industries and Production division; Financial Action Task Force (FATF); Information and Broadcasting division, miscellaneous expenditure of Information and Broadcasting division; Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Combined Civil Armed Forces; Inter-provincial Coordination division; Maritime Affairs division; National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination division; Planning, Development and Special Initiatives division; Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), development expenditure of Cabinet division, development expenditure of Defence division; development expenditure of Power division; other development expenditure; development expenditure of Interior division and Capital outlay on Civil Works. The house also approved 15 excess demands for grants for the fiscal year 2021-22 after voice voting in the house.

The finance minister presented these supplementary demands for grants which were approved after voting.

The demands were related to Intelligence Bureau; Airports Security Force; Pakistan Post Office Department; Federal Government Educational Institutions in Cantonments and Garrisons; Defence Services; Housing and Works division; other expenditure of Interior division, Combined Civil Armed Forces; Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan division; Law and Justice Division, National Accountability Bureau; Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development division; Planning, Development and Special Initiatives division; States and Frontier Regions division and Federal miscellaneous Investments & other Loans and Advances.

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