The annual budget of the Sindh government for the upcoming fiscal year 2018-19 will be presented on May 5, a press release issued on Saturday stated.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, who is also the provincial finance minister, will present the budget in a special session of the Sindh Assembly.
This will be the sixth consecutive annual budget of the present provincial government of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
The Sindh Finance Department has dispatched a circular to this effect to the finance departments of the other provincial governments as well as to the federal finance ministry, informing them about the date of the announcement of the Sindh government’s new budget.
The chief minister will also convene a meeting of the provincial cabinet on Monday (tomorrow) at the new Sindh Secretariat building.
A number of important government and legislative affairs are on the agenda of the meeting.
