Senate adopts 27 recommendations on supplementary finance bill

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (APP):Senate Monday adopted 27 recommendations on the Finance Supplementary (Amendment)
Bill, 2018 as reported by the Standing Committee on Finance which would be moved to National
Assembly (NA) for further consideration on them.
On behalf of Chairman Standing Committee on Finance, a member of the Committee Mian
Attique Shaikh presented the report on the proposals for making recommendations on the Finance
Supplementary (Amendment) Bill, 2018.
The House adopted 27 recommendations on the Bill.
Among these recommendations, the Upper House recommended to the
National Assembly that the tax exemptions extended to the FATA, PATA and
Malakand division prior to the 25the constitutional amendment should be
restored as per law and every judgment of the Supreme Court in that
regards should be honored.
Senate also recommended to the NA that funds may be
allocated for water storage, irrigation, agriculture, power, roads/highways,
new schools and type D Hospitals at Khyber Agency Bara.
It recommended that criteria should be revised and
rules be relaxed in order to increase the number of beneficiaries and funding
the BISP for Tharparkar District due to drought situation there.
The Upper House recommended to the NA that due to the deplorable
circumstances for fishermen at the Gwadar East Bay, the repeatedly promised
funds and development of fishlanding jetty of the west Bay ma be
completed to end the suffering of the local population.
It recommended that funds may be allocated for
districts Mastung and Khuzdar, which are ideal for harnessing wind and solar
energy, so as to meet the energy needs of the country.
It also recommended that supply and installation of Electric Poles and transformers in Municipal corporation in Disticts Khuzdar may be completed on priority.
It recommended to the Lower House to include the Khawazai
and Bazai 132KVA grid station at Muhammad Agency costing Rs700 to 800 million
in the PSDP 2018-19 as the same power grid station is urgently needed for above
two tehsils.
It recommended that Bosqa (District Bajour) hydle power station
which was reflected in 2018-19 PSDP may be expedited.
Furthermore, it recommended that irrigation water in particular should be measured by using water meters, and funds be allocated for quantifying and measuring the amount of water.
The Senate recommended that in order to reduce drought
severity in district Khuzdar Balochistan which is expected to be worse with
every passing day, small dams need to be constructed on priority.
It recommended that following examples from China, Holland, India etc projects for preventing water
evaporation by covering canal systems with preferably solar panels to achieve
energy generation as well, my be incorporated and approved.
It also recommended to include angiography lab/electrophysiology procedures for civilian patients at
Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and National Institute of Heart diseases,
Rawalpindi costing Rs215.400 million in the PSDP 2018-2019.