Umar showed his annoyance over ignoring the directives that Prime Minister Imran Khan had issued for initiating the process on schemes recommended by parliamentarians, said the sources. Even Prime Minister Imran Khan suspects that the bureaucracy was deliberately letting the PTI government down. The Interior Ministry has spent Rs2.3 billion against annual allocation of Rs14.8 billion and the Planning Ministry too could spend only Rs6.1 billion against Rs27.1 billion annual budget . The NDMA has demanded Rs29 billion, Education Ministry (Rs4 billion), Climate Change ministry (Rs6 billion) and Water resources ministry, Rs9 billion. The minister stressed that the available financial resources should be fully utilised by the projects, said the Planning Ministry.

Source: The Express Tribune March 24, 2021 03:56 UTC