Presidency, PM House, SC and IHC budgets increased

ISLAMABAD: Despite making tall claims on economic development and increasing the living standard of the masses, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in its third consecutive budget increased the Prime Minister House’s budget by almost 8.04 per cent while the Presidency’s budget was increased by 7.77 percent. On the whole, a good jugglery of figures is being seen in the national budget.
For the President’s House, the total allocations of Rs801 million (Rs801,000,000) for the next fiscal year of 2015-16 shows an increase of Rs57.747 million against the allocated amount.The allocation of Rs801 million made for the presidency for the coming financial suggests that Presidency would spend Rs2.19 million daily from the taxpayers money.
Out of the total allocations of Rs801 million for the Presidency, Rs535.90 million is in the head of the President Employees Related Expenses and Rs186.89 million for staff and household of the president. On the foreign visits of the president and his delegation, Rs270 million are allocated as compared to the last year’s Rs250 million.
While for the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Rs842 million (Rs842,000,000) for the fiscal year of 2015-16 has been allocated. The daily expense of Prime Minister’s Secretariat and House would be Rs2.306 million for the coming financial year.
An interesting aspect is that for the foreign tours of the PM during the coming fiscal year of 2015-16, an allocation of Rs1,700.01 million will be made. However, this allocation is made in the Foreign Office head rather than showing in the budget for the Presidency and Prime Minister’s Secretariat. The amount of Rs270 million is allocated for president’s foreign tours for the whole year.
The amount of Rs1,700.01 million is allocated for the prime minister’s foreign tours and if that amount is divided over 365 days of the year, itmeans the prime minister will spend Rs4,657,561 daily.
The Presidency, against its estimated budget of Rs743,253,000m used Rs749,253,000.While the Prime Minister’s Secretariat has spent Rs800,780,000 against the allocated amount of Rs779,355,000 i.e. the Prime Minister’s Office has spent more than allocated amount.
For the total allocations of Rs801,000,000 in the budget of President House, Rs535.90 million have been allocated for the staff and household of the president. The staff and household basically were those employees who provide their services for the Presidency that include butler, waiters and like other employees.
In the budget, Rs one million is in the head of salary of president, Rs800,000 in the head of presents and charity, Rs one million for the discretionary grant of president, Rs31,300,000 for maintenance of gardens, and Rs31,276,000 for state conveyance and motor cars.
For the staff and households for the Prime Minister’s Office, Rs88,488,000 has been allocated in the budget for the financial year 2015-16 against Rs70,011,000 allocated for the last financial year.
In the head of wages and household servants of the Prime Minister’s House, Rs575,500,000 have been allocated against Rs522,378,000 during the outgoing year, Rs44,070,000 has been allocated in state conveyance and motor cars while in last year Rs47,955,000 was utilised by the PM House.
An amount of Rs27,396,000 has been allocated for the Prime Minister’s Estate garden expenses while last year it was Rs25,265,000.For the Prime Minister’s Inspection Team, Rs62,000,000 has been allocated while last year it was Rs.57,456,000.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court of Pakistan budget has also been increased in the fiscal 2015-16 to Rs96.53 million.Last year, the Supreme Court of Pakistan budget was Rs1,206,470,000 while this fiscal it has been raised to Rs1,303,000,000. Employee related expenses were increased from Rs953,496,000 to Rs994,017,000, with an increase of Rs40,521,000.
Similarly, in the Islamabad High Court budget, Rs34.36 million have been increased as last year the budget of the IHC was Rs414,640,000 while this year Rs449,000,000 have been allocated.