Sindh to present budget for next fiscal year on May 5

The annual budget of the Sindh government for the upcoming financial year 2018-19 will be presented at 3pm on May 5, stated a press release issued on Saturday.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, who holds the additional portfolio of the provincial finance minister, will present the budget in his speech in a special session of the Sindh Assembly. This will be the sixth consecutive annual budget of the present provincial government of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

The Sindh Finance Department has despatched a circular to this effect to the finance departments of the other provincial governments as well as to the federal finance ministry, intimating them about the date of the announcement of the Sindh government’s new budget.

Sindh’s chief executive has also convened a meeting of the provincial cabinet at 11am on Monday at the new Sindh Secretariat building. A number of important government and legislative affairs are on the agenda of the meeting.