Day: June 15, 2021

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly started its budget session with Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in the chair here in the new building at 4: 40pm, with two hours and 40 minutes behind the schedule. Soon after the speaker, Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, provincial ministers and all other members of the Punjab Assembly took their seats, […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated development budget for Women Development projects in the province amounting to Rs 500 million in fiscal year 2021-2022. Punjab Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht said in his speech that Punjab government has allocated 75.871 million for two on-going schemes while Rs 424.129 million for six new schemes for […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government for the first time in history of the province had paid special attention to south Punjab by allocating Rs 189, 288 million under the Annual Development Plan (ADP) 2021-22 for South Punjab. Provincial Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht while addressing the budget speech in the Punjab Assembly on Monday said that […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government had allocated Rs 31093 million for the administration of justice in the 2021-22 budget announced here on Monday. According to budget documents, Rs 5925 million is the estimated budget for the Lahore High Court whereas Rs 25168 million has been reserved for the lower judiciary, including sessions courts, civil courts, special […]

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Ejaz Alam Augustine has said that the agenda of the PTI government was to provide maximum relief to the common man and hopefully provincial budget for the financial year 2021-22 will set a new record. He congratulated the nation on presenting a people friendly budget by […]

LAHORE: Punjab University (PU)’s Examinations Department has issued the date sheets for various examinations . According to PU spokesman, the Examination includes: LLB (3-year) Part-I, II & III supplementary examinations 2020, LLB (5-year) Part-I, II, III and IV supplementary examinations 2020, BS Applied Geology first, second and third Professional second annual examinations 2020, BS Home […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has earmarked an amount of Rs 442 billion for education sector in the provincial budget 2021-22. Punjab Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht in his budget speech said that Rs 54 billion would be spent on development schemes and Rs 388 billion would be spent for current expenditures in education sector. […]

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar Monday chaired a provincial cabinet meeting, which unanimously approved the budget proposals for fiscal year 2021-22 besides the finance bill 2021. Supplementary budget 2020-21 and revised estimates for the financial year 2020-21 was also approved in the meeting. The cabinet approved a 10 per cent rise in salaries […]