PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker Government here on Tuesday authorized Rs462.426 billion expenditure for four months (July 1 to October 31, 2023) and announced 35 percent adhoc relief allowance for its employees BS 1 to 16 and 30 percent from BS 17 and above and 17.5percent in pension of all pensioners.
Presenting the salient features of authorized expenditure for the above four months, Adviser to the chief minister for finance and energy, Himayat Ullah Mayar here said that Rs350.041 billion was fixed as total authorized current expenditure, Rs309.498 bln for settled current expenditure, Rs40.543 bln for newly merged areas (NMA) current expenditures for the said four months.
On the development side, he said the authorized development expenditure for July 1 to October 31, 2023, is Rs112.385 billion, the settled development expenditure is Rs92.122 bln and NMA’s Rs20.263 bln for the said months.
As many Rs8.667 bln expenditure for the Annual Development Programme, Rs1.263 bln for FPA and Rs10.333 bln for Accelerated Implementation Program of NMAs were authorized for the said four districts.
The Adviser announced 50pc increase in traveling allowance for all Provincial Government employees, 100pc increase in special conveyance allowance for disabled employees and an increase in orderly allowance from Rs14,000 per month to Rs25,000 per month.
Besides 50pc increase in deputation allowances and 100pc in secretariat performance allowance, the Adviser also announced the extension of executive allowance to officers of special duty an increase of minimum wages from Rs26,000 per month to Rs32,000pm and ration allowance of police and jails from Rs681pm to Rs1000pm respectively.
Referring to authorized expenditure for different departments for July 1 to October 31, 2023, the KP Adviser said that Rs11,653.26 mln expenditure are fixed for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Rs1295.72 mln for Aukaf, Religious, Hajj Department, Rs20,729.17mln for Communications and Works, Rs107,953.58 mln for Education, Rs6,941.77mln for Energy and Power Department, Rs3,776.15 Environment and Forests, Rs2400.59 mln for Establishment and Administration Department, Rs614.02 mln for Excise and Taxation, Rs14,631.68 Finance Department, Rs74,597.67 Health Department, Rs18,34.72mln for Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Rs239.59mn for Housing Department and Rs2519.09 mln for industries and technical education.
Similarly, Rs368.77 mln expenditures fixed for Information Department, Rs29.98 mln for IPC, Rs9861.95 mln for Irrigation Department, Rs1692.95 mln for jails and convicts settlement, Rs294.74 mln for Labour Department, Rs5,289.60mln for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Rs20,775.01mln for P&D, Rs38,143.95 mln for Police, Rs8443.30 mln for Public Health Engineering, Rs4033.57mln for Relief and Settlement, Rs13,184.04 mln for Revenue, Rs2833.72mln for Sports, Culture, Rs3139.65mln for Tourism, Rs2314.26mln for Transport, Rs1000 mln for investment, Rs16,600mln for debt servicing, Rs10,333.33mln for tehsil ADP, Rs36,738.88 food Department and Rs10,100 mln for payment and advances.
