| Allocations reduced for Governor, CM houses |
| Tuesday, 17 June 2008 | |
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The Sindh government has reduced the budget of the Chief Minister House and the Governor House while increasing the budget for the Sindh Assembly. The previous government had allocated a budget of Rs140,792,800 to the CM House for 2007-08 and the revised budget was Rs165,850,900. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led coalition government has reduced this and has allocated Rs156,203,400 for 2008-09. The Governor House was allocated a budget of Rs26,266,000 for 2007-08 and it was revised to Rs34,276,000. Now the budget for the Governor House stands at Rs26,366,000. The coalition government in Sindh, comprising the PPP, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP) has increased the Sindh Assembly budget for 2008-09 by allocating Rs130,263,000, while the previous regime allocated Rs129,663,000, with the revised budget at Rs97,366,000. The PML-Q-led provincial government had failed to utilise the budget allocated to the new building of the provincial assembly. A fresh amount has now been allocated for this purpose by the PPP government. |
