Peshawar: A supplementary budget worth PKR 23.17 billion for the FY 2017-2018 was presented by the Khyber Pakthunwa Minister for Finance, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, according to news reports. Jhagra stated that this budget is being presented at a time when all expenditures till June 30 of the ongoing financial year are available.
He also added that revenue expenditures, previously estimated to be PKR 388 billion, have increased to PKR 389 billion. He further stated that the total development budget of the year was PKR 126 billion, which was raised to PKR 134.56 billion after revised expenditures. In addition, he said that they were presenting a supplementary development budget of PKR 16.199 billion. PKR 6.599 million was released to the Energy and Power Department for salaries, while PKR 400 million was released to pay off federal government debt.
