Friday, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government led by PTI-PTI-A presented on Friday an excess budget of 219 billion rupees for the year 2025-26, not comprising new taxes, a salary increase of 10% and an increase of 7% for government employees.
The budget session, chaired by President Babar Salim Swati, began with the recitation of the Holy Quran.
The chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Ali Ameen Gandapur, the opposition chief, Dr. Ebad Khan, the parliamentary chief of the PPP Ahmed Kundi and the leaders of all the parties were present.
At the start of the session, the members of the opposition gathered in front of the speaker’s office, transporting signs and banners carrying slogans against corruption and nepotism alleged in the province.
Earlier, Governor Faisal Karim Kundi refused to immediately convene the budgetary session, stressing that he would not act under political pressure. He stressed that even if he was legally required to answer within 14 days, there was no obligation to comply instantly, in particular under what he called an undue influence of the chief minister or other quarters.
The chief minister sent a summary to the governor, asking to convene the budgetary session of the Assembly, but the governor chose not to immediately return the summary, which led to a delay in the planning of the session.
Presenting the annual budget, the Minister of Finance, Aftab Alam, announced that the expenses estimated for the financial year 2025-2026 would total 1,962 billion rupees, with a planned surplus of 157 billion rupees.
Panne, he said that the government expects to receive 292.340 billion rupees from the federal government for tribal merged districts. This includes 80 billion rupees in current budget subsidies, RS39,600 as part of the annual development program (ADP), 50 billion rupees through the accelerated implementation program (AIP), RS42,740 billion as an interprotrovincial share and 17 billion rupees for temporarily moved persons (TDP).
The Minister added that the province provides 3.293 billion rupees of the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP), RS1.506.92 billion federal transfers, RS129 billion from provincial income of the provincial origin and RS10.250 billion in other revenues, RS291.340m of merged district receipt and RS177.188m in the federal projection.
He Said RS137.912 Billion WOULD BE COLLECTED THROUGH The One Percent Share of the Divisible Pool Allocated for the War On Terror, RS57.115 Billion as Straight Transfers Under Gas and Oil Royalties, RS58.151 Billion from the Windfall Levy on Oil, RS34.580 Billion as net Hydel Profit for Current Year, and RS71.410 Billion as net hydel profit arrears.
The Minister of Finance added that no new tax had been imposed in the budget. Instead, the tax base has been extended, with expected tax revenue of 83,500 billion rupees and non -tax revenue of 45,500 billion rupees for the next fiscal year.
Likewise, the other receipts of RS10.25 billion would include capital receipts of 0.50 billion rupees and 10 billion rupees in other ways and means and RS1147,761 billion as federal tax attribution.
The Minister said that the Government had estimated that 1,255 billion current expenses for established areas, including RS288,514 billion for provincial wages, RS288.609 billion Tehsil wages, RS190.297 billion for pensions, RS334.028 billion for non -wage expenses), RS37.545 billion of non -wage spending for the Tehsils, 40.350 billion in capital spending and 10 billion rupees under the head of “other ways and means”. Likewise, current expenses of the merged areas are estimated at RS160 billion, including 56.842 billion rupees for provincial wages, 46.865 billion rupees for Tehsil wages, RS4.670 billion for pensions, 24.285 billion rupees for wage exposure, TDPS TDPS and RS10.339B Expenses.
