Taking part in the debate, PTI’s Gul Zafar Khan called for giving share of funds to the merged tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award as per their population in order to make available more resources for their development.
The Speaker referred the matter to the Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue in the public interest.
As regards the budget, Gul Zafar Khan said the government had provided huge relief to common people, particularly through funds allocations for the health, education and agriculture sectors.
Mahesh Kumar Malani of PPP asked the government to take steps for containing the inflation. He called for provision of more health, education and other basic facilities of life in the rural Sindh, especially remote areas of Thar, and allocation of funds for infrastructure projects.
He also urged the government to end electricity electricity load-shedding in Thar district.
PTI’s Uzma Riaz Khan hailed different measures proposed by the government in the coming budget to provide relief to the common people. The PTI government had achieved 4 percent GDP growth rate and 15 percent growth in large scale manufacturing in the current year, which was appreciable, she added.
She demanded a special package for the Hazara Division to resolve different issues of infrastructure, health, education and clean water. She stressed that more funds for the divison in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2021-22.
Sobia Kamal of the PTI said the budget 2021-22 gave a huge relief to the low income people as considerable amounts were allocated for social service programme.
She said the opposition parties were playing political gimmicks and targeting the national institutions for destabilizing the democratic system.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, she said, emerged as the world leader and achieved successes both at both international and national fronts. It was under his visionary leadership, Pakistan had achieved economic stability and was now moving on the path to progress, she added.
Sobia Kamal said the PTI government’s strategy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic was appreciated by the international community, she added.
The government, she said, had allocated a lot of resources for research to introduce more innovation to increase agriculture produce.