GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Meeting on Friday handed a decision demanding finalisation of area’s due share in NFC Award and allocation of assets to GB on the sample of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaker Nazir Ahmed chaired the meeting’s pre-budget session throughout which GB Finance Minister Muhammad Ismail and treasury member Amjad Hussain, together with opposition member Javed Ali Manwa offered a joint decision.
The decision acknowledged that after detailed deliberation and dialogue on the shortage of economic assets and overcoming the monetary disaster in Gilgit-Baltistan, the meeting unanimously resolved that the federal authorities ought to make an settlement for the allocation of assets to GB on the sample of the monetary settlement made with AJK and the federal authorities.
The decision additionally demanded provision of a 4 per cent share within the grant-in-aid share of provinces from the federal divisible pool till the finalisation of GB’s due share from the NFC; continuation of the present subsidy on the acquisition of wheat and petroleum for GB; institution of particular financial and industrial zones; particular initiatives for the area to draw personal sector buyers; provision of water use costs and web hydel revenue on energy technology; safety and provision of an enough share for GB underneath the PSDP.
All members from either side of the aisle favoured the decision, which was introduced adopted unanimously by Speaker Nazir Ahmed.
Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan referred to as it a ‘discrimination’ to not present NFC Award share to GB. He mentioned he had mentioned the supply of NFC Award shares to GB and Diamer-Basha dam royalty with the prime minister. He mentioned that GB had been supplied with Rs25 billion price of PSDP tasks through the fiscal 12 months 2022-23, however through the present fiscal 12 months, GB had solely been given Rs8 billion for tasks which was an injustice to the individuals.
He knowledgeable the meeting that authorities relaxation homes had been leased out to a personal firm for income, rejecting the impression that the remainder homes had been bought out to a personal firm.
Earlier, GB opposition chief Kazim Mesum criticised the GB authorities for leasing out 37 relaxation homes to a personal firm with out open bidding. GB opposition members Javed Ali Manwa and Raja Zakaria Khan Maqpoon mentioned the opposition would resist leasing out public properties to a personal firm with out open bidding.
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty fifth, 2024