HARIPUR: The Haripur tehsil council on Wednesday approved the Rs1.283 billion budget of the Tehsil Municipal Administration for the next financial year.

The council met here with convener Syed Ahsan Shah in the chair.

Nazim Tariq Khan presented the 2018-19 budget and said the TMA’s income for the next fiscal was estimated to be Rs1.283 billion, including over Rs370 million generated by property tax.

He said Rs90 million had been allocated for new development schemes, Rs301 million for the salary of TMA employees, Rs81 million for electricity bills and Rs90 million for the expenses of council members, while the rest of budget would be spend on non-development schemes.

The council later unanimously approved the Rs50 million development budget for the newly-created Khanpur tehsil.

Opposition member Sajjad Khan Bagra supported the budget declaring it balanced.

Convener Ahsan Shah told the house that Rs3.2 million would be distributed to 37 union councils each as development budget, while all tehsil councillors would get an equal share in the funds earmarked for development schemes.

PHD DISSERTATION: PhD scholar of the Hazara University’s Department of Archaeology Abdul Hameed has successfully defended his dissertation on ‘an analytical study of the archaeological discoveries at Bhamala, Taxila’.

He completed his PhD research under the supervision of Dr Shakirullah, an assistant professor at the department, while Prof Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, a professor of archaeology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, (USA) co-supervised the research.

According to a news release issued by the Archaeology Department of the Hazara University, the PhD dissertation focused on the comparative and scientific analyses of the latest discoveries made in Bhamala, one of the most important Buddhist sites located in Haripur district.

Published in Dawn, May 17th, 2018