The Punjab Assembly concluded on Friday budget debate for the next financial year as the chair prorogued the session sine die.
At least 46 lawmakers took part in the debate identifying the areas to be focused on during the upcoming budget.
Concluding the pre-budget debate, Finance Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman assured the legislators of considering their proposals.
He said the education budget would be increased by 30 per cent in the next fiscal year. He said more funds would be allocated for developing infrastructure.
“It has been decided to allocate Rs41 billion to the sector as a sum of Rs7.70 billion has already been released for the provision of missing facilities in schools of 11 southern Punjab districts.”
He said setting up of more basic health units, improvement in law and order, increase in agriculture production and provision of safe drinking water would be other priorities of the government in future.
Responding to queries by the lawmakers, he said supplementary budget was allocated to address security issues and to meet expenditures on visits by heads of foreign countries.
A sum of Rs12 billion had been earmarked for the provision of clean drinking water by setting up 1,479 filtration plants in 33 districts, he said.
