A spokesman of Sindh Chief Minister on Sunday strongly dispelled the impression created by a section of press that the provincial government under the Sindh Peoples Local Government Ordinance 2012 may have withdrawn from its authority to approve annual budgets of local bodies. Through a handout issued on Sunday the spokesman clarified that the Sindh government is fully authorized, as under the local bodies rules 1979 and 2001, to approve and/or review the annual budgets of local governments under the Sindh Peoples Local Government Ordinance 2012. He said during the meeting chaired by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, all members of Sindh cabinet unanimously supported the ordinance 2012.
