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| July 25, 2002 | Thursday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 14,1423 |
Pindi Tehsil council okays Rs500 million surplus budget
RAWALPINDI, July 24: The Tehsil council has approved a surplus budget of Rs500 million for the year 2002-03.
The budget was unanimously approved by the members at the council session held here on Wednesday.
About Rs92.6 million from the previous budget has been added to the budget approved for the current financial year.
The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) is expected to earn about Rs407.3 million this financial year. The total expenditures for the year 2002-2003 has been estimated at Rs477.4 million which means an amount of Rs22.5 million will remain unspent in the Tehsil’s kitty at the end of the year.
About 36 per cent of the budget has been earmarked for development projects whereas the remaining part of the budget will be spent on non-development expenditures.
The non-development expenditures, which amount to Rs304.9 million, include Rs205 million allocated for salaries of staff; Rs94.8 million for charged expenditures; Rs3.5 million will be spent on necessary expenditures and Rs1.5 million has been allocated for advances and deposits.
Similarly, the total amount for development sector comes to about Rs172.5 million which includes an allocation of Rs60 million for annual development programme; Rs25 million for maintenance and repairs of the TMA’s installations; Rs2 million for return of loans; Rs81.6 million for paying liabilities; and Rs2.5 million for the purchase of electricity goods.
The different departments including the district council, local government, public health engineering, housing and physical planning, which have been disbanded and merged into the Tehsil Municipal Administration, have also been budgeted in the allocations. All employees of these departments numbering about 175 have been accommodated in the TMA.
Their budgetary shares are Rs5.8 million for district government Rawalpindi; Rs0.72 million for local government and rural development; Rs6 million for public health engineering; Rs1.9 million for housing and physical planning and Rs1.5 million for Tehsil officers.
In the same way, those departments that have been detached from the Tehsil administration, including municipal schools, dispensaries, health units and libraries, have been excluded from the budget. As many as 748 employees will now be paid their salaries by the district government.
In this way, the TMA will save an estimated amount of Rs50 million which the Tehsil administration intends to spend on development activities in the city.
However, women councillors feared that the share allocated from them, which amounted to Rs3.4 million, might not be released like the previous year. An amount of Rs0.6 million had been earmarked for women councillors in the previous budget, but it has not been released so far.
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