PESHAWAR, July 10: City Nazim Azam Afridi here on Saturday unveiled a Rs4.11 billion surplus budget for Peshawar district for year 2004-05.

District's total income from various receipts has been estimated at Rs4.11 billion, while estimated expenditures have been projected at Rs3.83 billion.

Presenting the annual budget before the city district council, Mr Afridi said that for the first time Rs71.480 million annual development programme (ADP) had been announced for various schemes in all the 92 union councils of the district.

The district government has enhanced operational grant of the four town councils up to Rs40million due to income in the head of the local fund and raised the share of each union council from Rs217,000 to Rs300,000 per annum.

The budget session was presided over by Dr Iqbal Khalil.

The city municipal and development department (CDMD) will also receive over Rs1.90 billion for development and non-development expenditures for the current year. The projected amount would be spent on various schemes in the under-construction Regi Model Township.

Estimated receipts from octroi and Zila tax have been projected at Rs78.8 million while Rs76.6 million would be generated through urban immovable property tax.

The district would also collect Rs1.9 million through sugar cane cess fund. Other receipts have been projected at Rs203.8 million and those from provincial sources have been estimated at Rs1.76 billion.

Out of the Rs71.480 million ADP, the district share has been projected at Rs37.01 million, that of citizen community boards Rs17.87 million, civil defence share Rs0.17,480 million and town share will be Rs15.86 million. An outlay of Rs20.26 million have been projected from the CCB schemes in the ADP.

Azam Afridi said the district government would complete the major ongoing development schemes during the current fiscal year. He lamented that the federal government had ignored Peshawar while announcing special development packages for Lahore and Karachi. He said Peshawar was not receiving the amount required for the ADP, while according to the provincial finance commission's decision the district would receive only Rs71.4 million.

He said that during the presidential referendum, Gen Pervez Musharraf had announced provision of natural gas to the entire district, installation of 400 tube-wells and transformers and construction of four new colleges, but that commitment was yet to be fulfilled.