SWABI: Topi tehsil council chairman Rahim Jadoon on Friday presented Rs351.7 million budget for the fiscal year 2024-25.

He said that despite the financial constraints the tehsil government allocated Rs124.1 million for development expenditures.

Similarly, he said Rs89.2 million were allocated for non-development expenses, mostly payment of salaries to the employees, who work in different departments in the jurisdiction of the tehsil council. He said Rs30 million had been allocated for payment of pensions to the employees. He said sufficient funds had been set aside under the two heads, so that employees got their payments without hindrance.

Mr Jadoon said a major part of the budget went to the salary and pension head.

He said that the council allocated Rs108.3 million for other various expenses, while Rs5 million were allocated for honorarium of the tehsil chairman and members of the council.

“The council members will get low honorarium this time keeping in view the financial difficulties the provincial government is facing,” he said.

He spoke about the various sources through which the tehsil government would generate funds, but stressed that it was responsibility of the government to adopt a mechanism to strengthen the local government system. DROWN: A teenage boy and a man drowned in different incidents here on Friday.

A Rescue 1122 official told Dawn that a boy, identified as Kamran Khan, drowned while bathing in Gohati Canal in Parmuli area.

He said rescue divers and members of Parmuli welfare body fished out the body after hectic efforts and handed it over to the family. Also in the day, a man, Tariq Khan, 25, drowned in the Pehur Canal. The body could not be recovered till filing of this story on Friday evening.

Meanwhile, a man was killed allegedly by his son-in-law over a family dispute in Tordher village here.

The Tordher police registered a case against the accused, Afaq Khan, and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2024