Punjab Budget To Be Passed Today.

LAHORE -- The Punjab Assembly is all set to pass the provincial budget for the year 2022-23 on Wednesday (today) as it completed the general discussion on Tuesday which continued for four days.

Minister in charge finance department Awais Ahmad Leghari will wind up the budget debate at the outset of Wednesday's sitting after which the procedure for approval of the budget will start. Since the Opposition is boycotting the budget session taking place at Aiwan-e-Iqbal, it has not submitted any cut motions to block passage of the budget. This will be for the first time in Punjab Assembly's history that the budget will be passed without taking up the cut motions and the subsequent voting on them. Assembly sources said that the finance bill will also be passed on Wednesday (today) after passage of the budgetary grants regarding various departments. The...

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