No differences over Balochistan budget, says Khetran.

QUETTA -- Balochistan Finance Minister Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran has refuted rumours regarding differences over the new provincial budget presented on Tuesday, saying that it was prepared based on the vision to share funds for equal development of the entire province.

'It is based on the proposals of the elected representatives of the province, and the cabinet approved it with consensus and no cabinet members from the coalition partners disagreed with budget proposals,' he clarified while speaking at the post-budget press conference along with Secretary Finance Hafiz Abdul Basit on Wednesday.

Additional Chief Secretary Planning and Development Suleman Mufti, Secretary Implementation P and D Abdullah Khan Nourzai and other financial managers were also present on the occasion.

Sardar Khetran said that in the past, the friends, contractors and non-elected people were given development funds, depriving the elected members of the opposition of their rights to propose and initiate development schemes in their constituencies. 'We have decided not a single development scheme would be implemented through non-elected people,' he said.

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Referring to budget proposals, he said the budget outlay for 2022-23 was Rs612.7 billion, of which Rs191.5bn had been allocated for the PSDP while the gap between income and expenditure would be Rs72.3bn.

He said that out of the Rs172bn PSDP for the outgoing fiscal year, Rs92bn had been spent on development and 1,238 projects had been completed.

In reply to a question, he said the health card would be issued within six months and the Balochistan...

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