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GUJRANWALA, June 28: The City Tehsil Council presented a tax-free budget for the year 2002-03 here on Friday.
City Naib Nazim Ehsanullah Chaudhry presided over the meeting.
City Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad said an income of Rs423.559 million was expected against an expenditure of Rs403.277 million. He said Rs175.90 million had been allocated for development schemes.
The Nazim said the major source of income was a special grant of Rs178.60 million in octroi head from the government, while Rs47.60 million would be collected from taxes. He said Rs192.70 million would be spent on salaries of the city council staff. An amount of Rs48.70 million had been allocated for the construction of streets and drains etc. and Rs7 million for an emergency health centre on the GT Road. He said Rs1.5 million would be spent on streetlights, Rs1 million on fire brigade and Rs0.5 million for the renovation of parks.
Babu Javed appealed to members of both the opposition and treasury groups to cooperate with him to end corruption and injustice from the city council.
DISTT COUNCIL: June 28: The district council could not prepare its budget for the fiscal year 2002-2003 instead it gave an approval to the revised budget for the year 2001-2002 at a meeting on Friday.
District Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha said expenditures of the district government had been increased during the fiscal year 2001-2002. However, Rs50 million remained in balance and this amount would have to be returned to the Punjab government after an expiry of the current fiscal.
He appealed to the house to approve the revised budget of the year 2001-02 unanimously. But members of both the opposition and treasury groups refused to approve it. They criticized the district government for not utilizing the funds on development schemes, and demanded that these funds should be allocated for uplift projects instead of returning the same to the provincial government.
CONDEMNED: Leaders and activists of religious parties and khatibs have condemned Indian government’s decision to ban ‘Dukhtaran-i-Millat’ in held Kashmir.
Speaking at a meeting here on Friday, leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami, the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan and the Jamiat Ahle-Hadith demanded that extremists Hindu organizations should be banned to avoid carnage of the Muslims in India.
They also criticized the Madaris ordinance, and alleged that it was being done at the behest of America. They vowed that they would resist the ordinance.
KILLED: A minor boy drowned in the Upper Chenab canal near Nandipur on Friday.
Imran, 9, was taking a bath in the canal when he drowned.
He was a resident of Aroop village.
