All three of them get Rs. 2 billion.
Amazing. Look at the size of populations of these two as compared to Karachi. Look at the difference in resources required compared to Karachi. Look at the revenue generated by them compared to Karachi. And yet all three of them get similar amount of money for development.
Out of 2 billion for Karachi, 1 billion 300 million will be spent on PPP strongholds, Malir (500 million) and Lyari (800 million).
Great job, PPP. You milk the city as much as you could, and won’t give anything in return, which is actually the right of the city.
Sindh Budget: Rs2b each for Karachi, Larkana, Nawabshah
By Staff reporter
KARACHI, Jun 11: The Awami National Party MPAs were not present at the Sindh Assembly where the Sindh government announced Rs 457.5 billion budget for next fiscal, 2011-12 yesterday.
=Provincial Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah, while presenting the tax-free budget in the Sindh Assembly, said that the total receipts were pitched at Rs 458.4 billion. Thus, the province is estimating a surplus of Rs 882.1 million. The overall development portfolio is an unprecedented Rs 161 billion.
The expenditure for financial year 2011-12 is estimated at Rs 283.147 billion which is only one percent higher over the revised estimates of Rs 281.237 billion for financial year 2010-11. The current revenue expenditure of the province has decreased from Rs 147.451 billion for outgoing financial to Rs 146.276 billion for coming financial year.** A development package of Rs 2 billion was announced for Karachi in the budget**. For Hyderabad package, Rs1 billion has been reserved in the next financial year.
Under Larkana development package, Rs2 billion has been earmarked. Similarly, Rs2 billion has been reserved for Benazirabad (formerly Nawabshah).
The development package for Karachi was announced to be Rs20 billion, while Rs10 million, Rs20 million and Rs2 million were allocated for Hyderabad, Larkana and Benazirabad respectively.
Re: Sindh budget: Nawabshah, Larkana and Karachi get the same amount for development
In Karachi just Lyari, Keamari, Malir and rural Karachi get Rs2.2 billion, the article below doesn’t specify what other amount is allocated for rest of Karachi.
Re: Sindh budget: Nawabshah, Larkana and Karachi get the same amount for development
Is Karachi allowed to levy taxes? I had read about it in Mustafa kamal's time but nothing happened. Pakistan needs a 3-tier american type of taxation system.
Re: Sindh budget: Nawabshah, Larkana and Karachi get the same amount for development
Your city pays the most taxes, provides most gdp to the country, is the financial powerhouse yet you get jacksh!t in return. It's embarrassing. I just wish Karachi would become its own province.
I just cant let some feudal from Nawabshah or Larkana control my city.
Re: Sindh budget: Nawabshah, Larkana and Karachi get the same amount for development
Unfortunately even the thaykaydaar of the city, MQM, did not say a single word on this budget allocation for the city.
I do think Karachi should become a province. A multi-cultural multi-ethnic province. But rest-of-Sindh will not give up the golden goose so easily. Shahbaz Sharif just hinted about it, and PMLN’s office were vandalized by PPP goons in Karachi.
So it is highly unlikely.
I would be very interested to know how they spend money in Nawabshah and Larkana. Something tells me that most of it will end up in wadera-pockets as usual.
I hope to see infrastructure development there. At the very least, they should improve law and order situation there.
from 2009: http://newsupdate.tv/news_detail.php?page_id=12196
LARKANA,May7:The links roads and high-ways of the Larkana division have been occupied by the un-licensed private militants of tribal chiefs. The traffic and passengers are compelled to travel under the umbrella of weapon, various roads which leads to the Larkana city with the effective measures of the law and order situation.
