CM says survey soon to finalise next budget

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Thursday said the provincial government would soon launch a survey to finalise the next provincial budget in consonance with the people’s expectations.

In a message here, the chief minister said the provincial government would carry out an extensive exercise to know and ascertain people’s needs, requirements and their expectations.

The next budget would properly reflect what the people expected from the provincial government, he said, adding, hat the next budget would protect the due share of the people through a just resource-distribution formula and the implantation strategy through a well-directed roadmap.

The chief minister said the provincial government decided to set its priorities in view of the background, the people expectations and the need-driven approach.

There would be neither assumptions-oriented strategy nor any illogical, ambiguous and unclear direction in the whole process of budgetary preparation, he said.

“It is a right step for rectification of the flaws consistently committed in the past and which resulted in the drain of resources.

The survey is aimed at identifying the real issue of the people, the systematic revitalization of institutions, transparent governance and merit-based decision making for the public welfare and promoting participatory approach in the whole resource distribution formula,” he added.

Mahmood Khan assured the next budget would truly reflect the aspirations of the people.

He appealed to the people belonging to the cross sections of the society to contribute to the approach through their opinions as to how make the budget and the resource distribution formula transparent, need-driven and how could the government serve the people in the right way.