Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen will present the budget in the National Assembly today at 4 pm while the federal budget documents have been delivered to the Parliament House. The Finance Minister will present the supplementary grants for demand of the current financial year before the House.
Private TV quoted sources as saying that according to the budget document, the volume of the federal development budget has been set at Rs 900 billion, the federal ministries will get a development budget of Rs 672 billion.
According to the budget document, the Aviation Division will get a development budget of Rs 4.29 billion, the Cabinet Division a development budget of Rs56.2 billion, the Ministry of Education and Training a budget of Rs9 billion and the Higher Education Commission a development budget of Rs37 billion.
According to the document, the Ministry of IT will spend Rs 8 billion and the Ministry of Finance Rs 94 billion on development works, while Rs 3 billion has been set for the Ministry of Industry and Production and Rs 6 billion for the Ministry of Law and Justice.
