KARACHI, June 20: The Sindh government has allocated Rs25.38 billion revenue expenditures for all 16 districts of the province during the financial year 2002-2003. According to the break-up — salary and non-salary expenses are estimated at Rs20.88 billion and Rs4.51 billion, respectively.

This revenue expenditure is earmarked for nine general head of accounts, which include organs of state (excluding law department and others), finance department, tax management — board of revenue, planning, administration (works), education, health, community and development department and agriculture and food administration.

According to the district-wise disbursement summary, Karachi city has got the highest salary expenditure of Rs5.587 billion for 2002-2003 — Rs4.892 billion salary expenses and Rs695 million non-salary expenses. In the fiscal 2001-2002, the revised estimate for Karachi was Rs4.926 billion as against the budget estimate of Rs3.391 billion.

A total of Rs2.866 billion has been allocated for revenue expenditure for Hyderabad district, in which salary and non-salary amounts come to Rs2.352 billion and Rs513 million, respectively, for 2002-2003. Revised estimate for 2001-2002 was Rs2.356 billion as against budget estimate of Rs1.755 billion.

Larkana district’s budget allocation for revenue expenditure for the up-coming fiscal has been fixed at Rs1.589 billion, carrying Rs1.381 billion and Rs206 million as salary and non-salary expenditures, respectively. Budget estimate in 2001-2002 for Larkana was Rs1.131 billion and revised estimate was Rs1.415 billion.

A total of Rs918 million (salary) and Rs254 million (non- salary) expenditure makes a total budget revenue expenditure of Rs1.172 billion for Sukkur district for 2002-2003. In 2001- 2002, budget estimate was Rs685 million.

The revenue expenditure for Nawabshah district has been allocated at Rs968 million for 2002-2003, which include Rs808 million as salary and Rs159 million as non-salary expenditures. In 2002-2003, the budget estimate for the district was Rs576 million.

Revenue expenditure for Dadu district has been estimated at Rs1.601 billion (Rs1.323 billion salary and Rs278 million non-salary). A sum of Rs1.021 billion had been estimated for the year 2001-2002.

The budget estimate for Mirpurkhas district has been amounted to Rs1.351 billion that include Rs1.091 billion as salary expenditure and Rs260 million as non-salary expenditure. A sum of Rs880 million had been allocated as budget estimate in 2001-2002.

The share of revenue expenditure for Sanghar district for 2002-2003 is estimated at Rs1.484 billion, carrying Rs1.191 billion and Rs292 million as salary and non-salary expenditures, respectively. Budget estimate in 2001-2002 was Rs919 million.

A salary expenditure of Rs1.384 billion and Rs302 million non-salary combine to make a total of Rs1.685 billion estimated revenue expenditure for Khairpur district in 2002-2003. A total of Rs1.1 billion was the budget estimate in 2001-2002.

The budget estimate of revenue expenditure for Jacobabad district is Rs1.165 billion (Rs909 million salary and Rs255 million non-salary expenses). The budget estimate for 2001- 2002 was Rs840 million.

Shikarpur district’s expenditure in terms of salary (Rs178 million) and non-salary (Rs876 million) make a total budget estimate of Rs1.054 billion for the year 2002-2003. A total of Rs534 million was the budget estimate in 2001-2002.

The budget for Nausheroferoz district’s revenue expenditure is estimated at Rs1.088 billion, which include Rs888 million and Rs200 million as salary and non-salary expenses, respectively.

Badin district’s 2002-2003 budget revenue expenditure has been estimated at Rs1.087bn, consisting of Rs803m and Rs284m as salary and non-salary expenses as against Rs640m budget estimate for 2001-2002.

The 2002-2003 budget estimate for Thatta district is Rs1.256 billion, carrying component of salary and non-salary expenses of Rs965 million and Rs290 million, respectively. A total of Rs734 million was the budget estimate for the outgoing fiscal.

Ghotki district budget in terms of revenue expenses for fiscal 2002-2003 is estimated at Rs753 million, in which salary expense comprises of Rs569 million and Rs184 million as non-salary expense. The budget estimate for 2001-2002 was Rs477 million.

A total of Rs674 million has been earmarked as budget estimate for Mithi district for 2002-2003 in terms of revenue expenses on the basis of Rs522 million and Rs152 million as salary and non-salary expenses, respectively. In 2001-2002, the budget estimate was Rs435 million.