Austerity policy being implemented in all gov't departments: Ali Muhammad.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan on Saturday said that the government had fully embarked upon the agenda of observing austerity across all the government institutions and departments.

Speaking in National Assembly here, he said the Prime Minister Office saved 29 percent of its budget during the year 2019-20 as an amount of Rs 137 million out of total allocation of Rs 474 million had been returned.

Similarly, he said in 2018-19, Rs 454 million were allocated for Prime Minister House, out of which only Rs 304 million were utilized during the year.

With respect to expenditures in Prime Minister House, the minister of state said that the expenditures were brought down from Rs 1.4 billion to Rs 670 million.

He said numbers of employees which were 522 were reduced by half while numbers of vehicles were also brought down from 74 to 46.

He said the Prime Minister lived in his own house in Bani Gala and unlike in the past there was no camp office of Prime...

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