QUETTA, Dec 30: Quetta District Council has approved revised annual budget of Rs2.18 billion, without any new tax, of the city government.

District Nazim Mohammad Rahim Kakar presented the revised budget. Naib Nazim Mir Wali Mohammad Lehri presided over the budget session of the council.

No new tax was imposed in the current financial year’s budget. However, some changes were proposed in the existing taxes to make the recovery system effective for increasing the resources of the district government.

In the approved budget, the provincial government would provide Rs1.23 billion.

Presenting the budget, Rahim Kakar said that for meeting the gap in estimated expenditures and available resources, the city district government needed more resources.

He said that city government had demanded that the government should provide over Rs820 million.

Members of the opposition, led by Nasimur Rehman, raised objection on the size of the budget.

He said that in the revised budget Rs880 million had been allocated for the Public Sector Development Programme. Over Rs430 million would be spent on 33 ongoing development schemes and Rs450 million have been allocated for 39 new schemes.

In the revised budget, Rs144 million have been earmarked for eight ongoing road construction and improvement schemes and Rs103 million would be spent on seven new schemes.