KP budget guarantees sustainable development, claims CM

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has termed the next fiscal year budget progressive that guarantees the sustainable development of the province.

He said this while talking to Minister for Labour and Culture Shaukat Yousafzai and his Special Assistant for Information and Higher Education Kamran Bangash who called on him, said an official handout.

The chief minister said the government had focused on the development of all districts, including the merged ones, strengthening of all sectors, especially education and health, and providing relief to every segment of the society particularly government employees and the vulnerable segment of society in the budget 2021-22.

He said to develop the less-developed districts on a permanent basis and eliminate development disparity among districts, a district development plan of Rs61 billion had been designed under which over Rs10 billion would be spent on development schemes in the upcoming financial year.

Mahmood Khan added that construction, rehabilitation, and upgrading of over 21000 schools, the appointment of 20,000 schools teachers and 3,000 schools leaders, construction of 10,000 model classrooms, provision of furniture to schools costing over Rs4 billion, recruitment of more than 4,000 school teachers in merged districts, revamping of major hospitals of the province, improving Basic Health Units and Rural Health Centres, 100 percent increase in funds for providing free medicines in hospitals had been included in the budget.