HARIPUR, Oct 22: The Tehsil Nazim of Ghazi, Sahibzada Syed Qasim Shah, presented the first, Rs14.6 million budget for the fiscal year 2001-02 the other day.

Presenting the budget before the council, which met with Zubair Hayat Khan in the chair, the Nazim said that total income was expected to be around Rs7.35 million and the expenditure was at Rs7.27 million, including Rs1.16 million for the staff salaries and Rs150,000 as the honorarium to be paid to the members.

Talking about the problems faced by the people, the Nazim said that despite offering valuable cooperation for the Tarbela dam and Ghazi Barotha project, the area had always remained underdeveloped and neglected. He said that people of Tarbela who were promised alternative farmlands and residential plots, were running from pillar to post in Sindh and Punjab for the possession till today.

About the poppy cultivation, the Nazim said that the residents of Bait Gali and Nara Amazai villages used to depend on this source of livelihood in the past but in late eighties the government made them to stop its cultivation on the promise of incentives.