Govt allocated no funds for MCI: mayor

Islamabad

Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz said though the government has not allocated funds for the Municipal Corporation Islamabad (MCI) in the annual fiscal budget but he would talked to the high ups and special funds would be issued to carry out development projects in the union councils of the capital city.

“The issue of notification of the budget rules will be resolved and funds will be released for the development projects in the union councils,” he said.

It is pertinent to mention here that despite the passage of 17 months the MCI has so far not received funds for the development projects and the salaries of the staff of MCI are being paid through the loan received from Capital Development Authority (CDA).

Opposition leader in MCI Ali Awan said the government has not issued funds to the union councils since November 2015 due to which the elected representatives of the local bodies feel helpless when the common people approach them for resolution of their problems.

“The Interior Ministry had sent the budget rules to the Finance Division last year but since then no initiative was taken to provide funds to the union councils. The government wants to make the elected local bodies dysfunctional for some obvious reasons,” he said.