A year after taking office, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur said the province’s finances have improved with a Rs150 billion surplus.
The chief minister told a late-night cabinet meeting that his government had serious financial issues in the past and had only enough money to cover 15 days of employee salaries, but that revenue had increased without new taxes.
Cabinet members, chief secretary, additional chief secretary, senior tax board member, administrative secretaries, and the provincial advocate general attended.
Provincial current account surplus was Rs150 billion, according to the chief minister.
Cabinet approves judicial officer welfare fund bill.
He stated without new taxes, the province had boosted its income by 50% and freed all money for annual development programmes.
His government also released all blocked monies, Mr. Gandapur said.
His government restored the health card scheme after it was halted.
Despite expanding its coverage, the chief minister stated the plan saved Rs900 million in a month.
He claimed KP was the first province to establish a debt retirement fund and reserve Rs30 billion for it after clearing his Rs87 billion liabilities.
“The first provincial transmission line was built at a cost of Rs18 billion to provide cheap electricity to industrial units,” he said.
A draft bill to create the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial officials Welfare Fund to help officials in health problems, accidents, natural catastrophes, and retirement was approved by the government.
Additionally, it approved a Rs667.5 million special grant to Peshawar Development Authority for 150 kanals of land to develop the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy at Regi Model Town.
The cabinet granted Peshawar High Court Rs9.93 million to buy justices’ automobiles, lifting the ban. It authorised ombudsman secretariat cadres.
A car park near the Peshawar High Court and district courts was ordered to be built quickly by the chief minister.
Cabinet accepted the draft change to KP (Appointment, Deputation, Posting/Transfer of Teachers, Instructors, and Doctors) Regulatory Act, 2011 Sections 2 and 3 (sub-sections 1-4). The Act was amended to use “educational cluster” instead of “union council”.
The draft notification for the Haripur Water and Sanitation Services Company and a Rs310.696 million non-ADP programme to build an auditorium at Abbottabad Public School were approved.
The cabinet allocated Rs3.3 million for the Institute of Management Sciences to help four students whose startup “Eagle Tasker” went to the Hult Prise global finale in the US.
Participants also unfroze the ADP plan Establishment of Boys Campus of Model Institute Zamungkor in Peshawar. The Rs492.76 million programme extends the institute. In 2016, Zamungkor was founded under the Child Protection and Welfare Act, 2010 to help vulnerable and impoverished children.
For the current fiscal year, the cabinet approved a Rs10 million Umeed Special Education School sustaining fund. At now, 150 children with five disabilities attend the school.
The cabinet approved Rs3.1 million for Aisha Foundation’s education facility and Rs68.51 million for the province’s sports contingent to compete in the 35th National Games in Karachi.
The participants ex-post facto approved a cellular firm as the centralised bank services provider for Ramzan Package distribution to 1,016,394 worthy province residents.
