HARIPUR, July 21: The Tehsil Council Haripur approved the annual budget with a total outlay of Rs78.544 million for the fiscal year 2002-2003 here on Saturday. The budget session was presided over by the council convener Amin Khan Badhora advocate.

The new fiscal document was presented by Tehsil Nazim Iftikhar Ahmad Khan a second time in the council as the earlier one had been rejected by a majority of councillors over the decision of separating the income and expenditure of the defunct Khalabat Municipal Committee, which were shown to be Rs10 million.

The matter was referred to the finance sub-committee of the council at the time, which, after a long deliberation, approved the budget before presenting it in the house.

According to the modified budgetary document, the TMA would receive a sum of Rs62.558 million as net income from its prescribed sources against the last year’s projected income of Rs51.389 million with Rs18.030 million as the opening balance.

The net income witnessed an increase due to an upward revision in the rents of the TMA’s shops in the city.

A breakdown of income and expenditure indicates that out of Rs31.33 million, the net allocation for the development funds — Rs14.39 million — would be spent on new development schemes, while Rs11.76 million have been earmarked for the ongoing projects.

The TMA has this time allocated Rs4.76 million for Community Citizen Board (CCB), which is a new head of development expenditure in the budget. According to the Tehsil Nazim, the provincial government had made the allocations for CCB mandatory for each district.

Under this scheme, the community would be required to share a development project with certain monetary contribution in their respective areas.

Women development received only Rs0.746 million, scholarships Rs0.278 million, maintenance and repairs of M&R plus petty works Rs0.3 million, civil defence Rs0.2 million and sports Rs0.101 million.

A sum of Rs47.212 million went to the non-development schemes, which is about 30 per cent higher than the previously projected expenditure during the outgoing fiscal year.

From this head, Rs17.55 million have been spared for contingencies and Rs22.11 million for establishment charges.

The reason behind an unprecedented increase in non-development expenditure, the Tehsil Nazim told the council, was the doubling of TMA’s staff and raise in their salaries.

Though the house unanimously approved the modified budget, some members demanded certain changes in it.