: The Minister said that Rs123 billion allocated for communication and works, Rs32 billion for public health engineering, Rs46 billion for irrigation, Rs1.04 billion for housing, Rs2.70 billion for industries, Rs19.11 billion for Zakat, Ushar and Special Education, Rs11.6 billion for sports and youth affairs.
The minimum wages has been increased from Rs 36000 to Rs40000, Disparity Reduction Allowance for Govt employees has been increased from 15 percent to 20 percent. The Government has also proposed to bring salaries of constable to inspector of KP police at par with the Punjab police while the martyrs package of constable, ASI And inspector has jacked up to Rs11 million from Rs10 million and Rs 16 million for DSP and ASPs, Rs21 million for SPs, SSPs and DIG rank officers besides allocation five, seven, 10 marlas and one kanal for plots for martyred families respectively.
He urged the Federal Govt to convene a meeting of the NFC and provision of additional grant for developmental and non-developmental budget for the merged districts.
Aftab Alam expressed his gratitude to the finance department and the team of planning departments for their efforts in preparing a comprehensive and public friendly budget 2025-26.
The Minister reiterated that the provincial government was committed to come up to the expectation of the public and tried his best to provide relief to the common man besides taking revolutionary steps for the development and progress in agriculture, education, health, industry and socio-economic sectors.
