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PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PUNJAB

LIST OF BUSINESS

FOR

THE MEETING OF THE ASSEMBLY TO BE HELD ON MONDAY,

15 JUNE 2015 AT 2:00 P.M.

Tilawat and Naat

 

 

“GENERAL DISCUSSION
ON ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2015-16”

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LAHORE:                                                                           RAI MUMTAZ HUSSAIN BABAR

13 June 2015                                                                                        Secretary

Summary of Proceedings

Summary of the Proceedings

Monday, June 15, 2015

(Started at 3:22 pm)

Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Speaker, assumed the Chair and proceedings commenced with a recitation from the Holy Qur’an and its Urdu translation followed by Naat-e-Rasool-e-Maqbool (PBUH).

General Discussion on Annual Budget for the year 2015-16

Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Leader of the Opposition, initiated general discussion on Annual Budget 2015-16. He criticized the Government and expressed dissatisfaction with the budgetary outlay. He stated that the entire budget was divide of democratic character for being prepared with the input of bureaucrats than the elected representative who better know problems of the masses. He drew the attention of the House to shortfall in revenue collection due to lack of funds received from luxury taxes, and stated that the target of revenue collection was at Rs.144 billion but only Rs.114 billion was collected. He stated that huge development funds remained unutilized and noted that only Rs.8 billion from last years Annual Development Budget was utilized and poor peasants were disproportionately taxed. Dismissing the increase in the education budget this year he pointed out that 52 % of last year allocation was not utilized. He pleaded for generating hydel based electricity. Criticizing law and order situation in the province he said even increase in the funds for police and law enforcement agencies crime rate is continuously growing.

The following Members also participated in the discussion: Muhammad Waris Kallu, Rana Muhammad Arshad, Malik Mazhar Abbas Raan, Mian Tariq Mehmood, Qazi Ahmad Saeed, Mr Abdul Rauf Mughal, Mr Muhammad Ejaz Shafi, Ch. Muhammad Iqbal, Mr Zulfiqar Ghori, Mr Muhammad Waheed Gull, Mr Ali Asghar Manda and Mr Ghulam Murtaza.

The House was then adjourned till Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 10:00 am.

Resolutions Passed

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