HYDERABAD, May 16: The Hyderabad district will get a major amount of development and non-development funds in the forthcoming budget for 2005-06 as officials continued to prepare budgets for four districts. Sources in the district government said on Monday that provisional figures were ready and open to amendments by the district government headed by the DCO.

As per the directives of the finance department with 20 per cent enhancement on development side, its budget of the ADP now stood at Rs643 million which is being divided into four districts Hyderabad, Matiari, Tando Allahyar and Tando Mohammad Khan.

For the development head the district would get Rs328 million, followed by Rs116 million of Matiari, Rs103 million of Tando Allahyar and Rs96 million for Tando Mohammad Khan.

Likewise, budget for non-development expenditures of the district was estimated at Rs2035 million while Matiari would get Rs916 million, Tando Allahyar Rs723 million and Tando Mohammad Khan Rs515 million.

The non-development expenditures were being prepared with 15 per cent overall raise as per directives.

In the current fiscal year, the district government had got Rs4.02 billion budget approved from the district council against one line budget of Rs3.16 billion.

Last year, the district government had allocated Rs537 million on the development side and Rs3.04 billion on non-development expenditures including salaries of employees of Rs2746.310 million and non salary expenses of Rs297.749 million.

Official sources said since major health and educational institutions were located in Hyderabad city for that reason their non-development expenses were higher than newly-created districts.

The budget figures were being collected here for four districts in absence of non-availability of one line budget by provincial finance and cooperation department.

Since the district government has no other index for preparing budgetary proposals population was set sole criteria for allocating financial resources.

“Then it will be upto the Sindh government to make amendments in these proposals. It will be the Sindh government that will consider backwardness, area and collection of three districts before final allocation of development and non-development expenditures for 2005-06”, said an official source.

The district government is dependent on receipts given by the Sindh government as they have not imposed any new tax for supplementing its income resources so it is upto the Sindh government to enhance the same, another source said.

After finalization of budgetary proposals, the district government would send them to the Sindh government for final approval.