PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa incurred an additional amount of Rs 240.0137 billion for the outgoing financial year 2024-25. The amount including Rs 192.7442 billion in head of current expenditure and additional Rs 47.2695 billion for development. The estimates of the additional expenses during the outgoing fiscal year presented in the legislature under Article 124 of the Constitution of Pakistan for approval from the house.
For the current financial year 2024-25, the current expenditure was estimated at Rs 1237.7158 billion out of which Rs 144.6284 billion were for the merged districts, but in the revised estimates it went up to Rs 1386.7950 billion which is Rs 192.7442 billion more than the estimated current expenditure.
The details of the additional current expenditure include Rs 102 million of the provincial assembly, Rs.1.4551 billion administration, Rs 64.663 Planning & Development Department, Rs 21.536 million Information Technology Department, Rs 267.167 million (Home Department), Prisons and Probation Department Rs 1.5870 billion.
Similarly, the additional expenditure of the Police Department was Rs 253.070 million, Rs 2.7359 billion (Administration of Justice), Rs 1.9399 billion (Higher Education Department), Rs 1.3246 billion (Building & Structure), Rs 1.69671 billion (Roads, Highways and Bridges), Rs 1.95938 billion (Public Health Engineering), Rs 2.8722 billion (Local Govt & Rural Development), Rs 104.390 million (Livestock Production), Rs 465.412 million (Forests & Environment), Rs 226.468 million (Wildlife Department) and Rs 829 million for Irrigation Department respectively.
Furthermore, an additional expenditure of Rs 504.847 million was incurred by the Information & Public Relations Department, Rs 10.8675 billion (Social Welfare & Special Education Department), Rs 486.241 (Pension), Rs 599.995 million (Food Security Net (Subsidy), Rs 150 billion (Investment) while Auqaf, Religious, Minorities and Hajj Affairs incurred an additional expenditure of Rs 96.322 million.
The Sports and Youth Affairs Department was required a supplementary budget of Rs 629.551 million, Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Department Rs 5.764 million, Transport Department Rs.1.504 billion, Elementary & Secondary Education Department Rs 1.2953 billion, Tourism Department Rs 201.022 million, Debt Servicing (interest payment) Rs 4 billion, Payback of the capital amount on foreign debts to federal government Rs 2.500 billion, Payment in head of debts and Advance Rs 3.105 billion.
For the financial year, 2024-25 the provincial government have had allocated Rs 416.2831 billion for annual development programme while the revised estimates climbed to Rs 447.2050 billion, which shows an excess amount of Rs 30.9218 billion. However, a technical supplementary budget of Rs 47.2695 billion was presented in the provincial assembly.
In the current fiscal year, the provincial government for the first time has also approved an amount of Rs 39.6 billion as ADP-Plus while another amount of Rs 2.1313 billion was approved for the provision of free textbooks and school bags to the students of the merged districts.
Furthermore, an additional grant of Rs 2.38 billion was also received for schemes initiated under PSDP and Pak-PWD.
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