The chief minister was told that during 2016-17, the total provincial receipts, including SRB (GST on Services), Tax excluding GST and non-tax were Rs166.033 bn. The meeting was informed that during the current financial year, 2974 schemes, including 2158 on-going and 816 new are in progress against an amount of Rs244 billion, including Rs39.884 million revenue. The chief minister said that his leadership has urged him to work out special programmes for women, youth and for poverty alleviation. Giving his priorities, the chief minister said that our focus would be on education, health, water and sanitation and agriculture. Since it is a preliminary meeting, only a rough sketch for the next budget is being discussed, and more similar meetings would be held at least thrice in a month, he concluded.

Source: Pakistan Today February 22, 2018 16:41 UTC