General debate on budget concludes in PA.

KARACHI -- Sindh Assembly Friday concluded the general discussion on budget for the next financial year 2020-21 here.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while delivering his speech on the floor of the house to conclude the budget debate said that before starting his budget speech he wanted to pay tributes to the doctors and all the frontline heroes who were fighting the coronavirus.

The members of the opposition benches during the speech of the Chief Minister staged

a protest in front of seat of the leader of the house. The Chief Minister said that the provincial government in this difficult time tried to present a balanced budget.

He said that the provincial government despite the big crisis of novel coronavirus tried to give relief to its people.

He said that the provincial government also announced increase in the salaries of the government employees.

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that his government had also allocated funds for Covid-19 and increased the health budget.

He further said that funds for health, education, agriculture, locusts and other sectors were also allocated. He said that Karach was the part of the Sindh province and funds for the development of the metropolis had also been allocated. Leader of the house Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the loadshedding of electricity by K-Electric was beyond him. He said that the situation of loadshedding of electricity by HESCO and SEPCO in rural Sindh was...