NOWSHERA, July 19: District Nowshera Nazim Pervez Khan Khattak presented a Rs900 million budget of the district council for 2003-04 without a new tax being imposed.

According to the budget outlay, some Rs640 million would go to the non-development head, including salaries, while Rs250 million would be spent on the uplift schemes in the district.

The Nazim told the budget session that Nowshera was the only district in the province which had made a record saving during the outgoing fiscal year.

He claimed that the district council had Rs110 million in its account.

He said this amount would be spent on the ongoing and new development schemes in the district.

He said that no new taxes had been imposed in the budget which would relieve the over-burdened people of the district.

The budget session was presided over by the council convener Pervez Ahmad Khan.

The convener told the council that the delay in holding the budget session occurred due to some technical problems.

Pervez Khattak said that a record development schemes had been carried out in the district in the previous year.