Taking part in the debate, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Agha Rafi Ullah proposed pre-budget consultation in the house committees to obtain the opinion of all stakeholders, including the industrialist and business community.
He suggested more industrial growth and promotion of small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) for providing employment opportunities to the youth in the country.
He proposed to grant more allocation for the education and health sectors for uplifting the standard of life of remote regions of the country.
He stressed the need to assign more resources for Sindh for sustainable development in the province.
PTI MNA Engr Usman Khan Tarakai proposed the positive debate in house on the coming budget for enhancing productivity to resolve the masses’ issues.
“We have inherited the weak economic situation and the government has already achieved economic stability for increasing the gross domestic product growth in the country. Now this is the time to provide relief to the people and allocate more resources in the coming budget 2021-22 for commoners, ” he added.
He said the government has presented a balanced budget and granted relief measures for the low income people, and also allocated more resources for remote regions of the country.
PML- N MNA, Ali Gohar Khan stressed for curtailing the inflation and decreasing the food price to provide relief to the commoners.
He said there should be a regulation mechanism to prevent the sugar and wheat cartels and control the price of these commodities in the market.
He criticized the political victimization and proposed for political consensus among all the political forces for strengthening the democratic institutions in the country.
PTI MNA Zulfiqar Dullah appreciated the balance budget presented by the government for the low income people, farmers and for the promotion of SMEs.
He said our exports increased by 14 percent in the last 11 months, which decreased our trade difficult for economic development in the country.
He said the government should engage overseas to increase the country’s remittances and exports.
He said industries must be established according to the specialization of the relevant industrial regions for bringing sustainable economic growth in the country.
He proposed to establish agriculture chambers and promote research in the agri-sector to promote innovations in the sector.
He said the country’s revenue collection have to enhance up to its real potential of worth Rs8, 000 billion through the institutional reforms and automation in the Federal Board of Revenue.
He paid gratitude to Prime Minister Imran Khan for announcing a hospital, Chakwal University and 500 KV grid station in Chakwal district.
PPP’s Naz Baloch stressed the need for providing education, health and employment opportunities to the people.
Viewing on coming budget 2021-22, she said there was a need to reduce the inflation ratio for lowering the food prices in the country.
The government should allocate more resources for children’s and mother health and mortality to enhance life expectancy in the country, she said.
Naz said the provincial government of PPP had offered huge health, education and infrastructural facilities in the province for providing relief to the people.
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