Next budget to be presented according to expectation: CM

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has revealed “the provincial government would soon launch a survey to finalize the next provincial budget in consonance with the people expectations.”

In a message issued here today, the chief minister said that the provincial government would carry out an extensive exercise to know and ascertain people’s needs, requirements and their expectations. The next budget would properly reflect what the people expected from the provincial government, he added. He said that the next budget would protect the due share of the people through a just resource distribution formula and the implantation strategy through a well directed road map.

The Chief Minister said in view of the background, the people expectations and the need driven approach, the Provincial Government decided to make its priorities. There would be neither assumptions oriented strategy nor any illogical, ambiguous and unclear direction in the whole process of budgetary preparation. It is a right step towards rectification of the flaws consistently committed in the past and resulted in to the drain of resources.

The survey is aimed at identifying the real issue of the people, the systematic revitalization of institutions, transparent governance and merit based decision making for the public welfare and promoting participatory approach in the whole resource distribution formula.

Mehmood Khan assured the next budget would truly reflect the aspirations of the people and appealed to the people belonging to the cross sections of the society to contribute to the approach through their opinions as to how to make the budget and the resource distribution formula transparent, need driven and how could the government serve the people in the right way.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister congratulated the President Fakhr-e-Alam, General Secretary and other office bearers of the Mohmand press Club for their election. In a felicitation message, the Chief Minister congratulated the newly elected office bearers of the Mohmand Press Club and hoped that they would serve their community with professional zeal and spirit and would come up to the expectations of their community.