PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Meeting on Tuesday authorised the present monetary 12 months’s Rs306.52 billion supplementary funds, together with Rs292.9 billion present and Rs13.5 billion growth expenditure.
The funds had easy crusing as a result of withdrawal of reduce motions by lawmakers a day in the past.
Speaker Babar Saleem Swati presided over the session, during which finance minister Aftab Alam moved the supplementary funds, comprising 15 calls for for grants.
The home handed all of them, one after the other.
Opposition chief calls for probe into ‘irregularities’ in two hydropower tasks
Out of the entire present supplementary funds, Rs14 billion was for the wage of tehsil authorities workers, Rs4.1 billion for pension, Rs1.33 billion for the general public well being engineering division, and Rs1.49 billion for the administration of justice.
After the passage of the funds, Chief of the Opposition Dr. Ibadullah Khan demanded that the speaker type a home committee to probe the alleged irregularities in Gibral-Kalam and Madian hydropower tasks.
He stated the 2 tasks value round Rs125 billion, and round Rs1 billion of the quantity had been utilised with no development work seen on the bottom.
Dr. Khan claimed that authorities spent these funds on the cost of salaries, the acquisition of autos, and different perks and privileges of workers.
He claimed that the World Financial institution, the lender for each tasks, too, had expressed concern about irregularities in each tasks.
The opposition chief stated Swat and Kohistan districts might generate 42000MW electrical energy with out polluting the atmosphere, in opposition to the nationwide requirement of 1443MW.
He stated the speaker ought to type a home committee to establish these concerned within the irregularities of each energy tasks for exemplary punishment.
The speaker requested the provincial authorities to direct the house division to take away “confusion” amongst lawmakers within the Higher South Waziristan tribal district in regards to the killing of 5 members of an area household.
The event got here as a lawmaker within the district raised the problem.
The speaker stated that the MPA had claimed that relations have been killed in an alleged drone assault, whereas the federal government had declared that they have been killed resulting from an explosion inside the home.
Earlier, MPA Asif Khan from Higher South Waziristan district knowledgeable the home that a number of days in the past, 5 folks from a household have been killed inside their home in a “drone assault.”
Nevertheless, the federal government clarified the matter in a press release, claiming that the folks have been killed in an explosion inside their home.
“I used to be not taken into the loop by the federal government earlier than the issuance of the assertion,” Mr Khan stated.
He added that the federal government had introduced compensation for the kin of the deceased and even tendered an apology.
The home additionally unanimously handed a decision to condone the deaths of the Iranian president and different officers in a helicopter crash.
“This home expressed its deepest condolences and sorrow over the tragic helicopter incident that resulted within the deaths of the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, overseas minister Hussain Amir Abdullah, and different esteemed personalities,” learn the decision, which was tabled by PPP member Ahmad Kareem Kundi.
It added that within the present second of profound sorrow, the meeting prolonged its heartfelt condolences to the Iranian folks and the households of the deceased, reaffirming its unwavering assist for and solidarity with them.
The chair later prorogued the session.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty second, 2024