Name : Jawad ahmad

Assignment : Economics
Department : BSBA(4thsemester) eve
Section : B
Registration No : 056

Budget 22/23

PRESIDENT HOUSE

An. announcement of austerity measures by President Dr Arif Alvi, the annual expense of the
presidency have increased by 4pc.

According to the budget 2022-23 document, the total expense of the presidency for the coming fiscal
year (to begin from July 1) will be Rs1.5 billion against last year’s expenditure of Rs1.2 billion. The
personal expenditure of President Alvi has gone up by 5pc.

Under the head of cabinet secretariat employee expenses, allowances have increased to Rs411
million, against last year’s expenditure of Rs405 million. Under the head of expenditure of staff,
household and allowances of the president (personal) Rs462 million have been earmarked for
employee-related expenses.

Operating expenses of the president have also increased by 7.3pc. Under the head of “staff,
household, and allowances of the president (public)” Rs277 million have been earmarked for
employee-related expenses, Rs97 million for operating expenses, Rs10 million for employees
retirement benefits, Rs0.5 million for grants, subsidies and write off loans, Rs18.5 million for physical
assets and Rs7 million for repair and maintenance.

PRIME MINISTER HOUSE

The annual expenditure of the Prime Minister Office has been increased by 29.4 per cent in the fiscal
budget 2022-23.

The budget of the Prime Minister Office for the year 2021-22 was Rs774 million and now it has been

2|Page
increased to Rs993 million.

The expenses of PM Office (internal) will be Rs465 million for the next year against Rs401 million of
the last year. Whereas, the expenditure of PM Office (public) will be Rs528 million in 2022-23
against Rs Rs373 million last year.

Under the head of expenditure of staff, household and allowances of the PM Office (Internal) Rs331
million have been earmarked for employees-related expenses.

Interestingly, operating expenses of the PM have also been increased by 29 per cent.

Under the head of “PM Office Pubic” Rs423 million have been earmarked for employees-related
expenses, Rs61 million for operating expenses, Rs25 million for employees retirement benefits,
Rs11.3 million for grants, subsidies and write off loans, Rs1.4 million for physical assets and Rs6
million for repair and maintenance.

HIGHER EDUCATION COMISSION

The federal government has allocated over Rs110 billion for development schemes and recurring
budget of Higher Education Commission (HEC), which is a little higher than the outgoing financial
year.

For fiscal year 2021-22, the government had earmarked Rs108 billion - Rs42.4 billion for
development and Rs66.25 billion for non-development expenditure.

For upcoming fiscal year, the government allocated Rs66 billion for recurring and Rs44.17 billion
for development schemes.

According to budgetary documents, Rs44.17 billion has been earmarked for 126 ongoing and 13 new
development schemes.

Besides, Rs1500 million have been earmarked for strengthening of lab facilities in five leading
engineering universities while Rs100 million for university campus at North Waziristan and Rs100
million for establishment of National Cyber Security Academy.

The government also allocated Rs350 million for setting up Dr AQ Khan Institute of Metallurgy and
Emerging Sciences.

LAKE VIEW

The federal government has earmarked Rs200 million for Rawal Lake water treatment.

According to budgetary document, total cost of the project titled Korang River and Rawal Lake water
treatment plant is 3.9 billion and for upcoming year Rs 200 has been allocated.

Under the said project, the Capital Development Authority (CAD) is supposed to install three sewage
treatment plants (STPs) in the Rawal dam’s catchment area to stop the flow of contaminated water
into the reservoir.

3|Page
Plants are to be built in lower Shahdara, Bari Imam and near Banigala. It may be pointed out here
that whenever this project is started, it would require 14 months to complete and will treat 9.6 million
gallons of water daily.

Last year, the CDA had called bids, which were opened in July last year, but the contract could not
be awarded within the stipulated time due to technical reasons.

According to CDA officials, the PC-I was prepared on the direction of the Planning Commission as
an engineering procurement and construction (EPC) mode project, which meant that its design and
engineering would be handled by an EPC contractor.

ISLAMABAD POLICE

An increase of Rs973.66 million was made in the budget of the capital police for the year 2022-23.

According to budget documents, over Rs11.29 billion have been allocated for the police compared to
Rs10.31 billion in the outgoing fiscal year.

However, the budget for the Safe City Islamabad was slashed to Rs253.41 million from Rs269.57
billion.

An amount of Rs6.07 million has been allocated to each of the police stations compared to Rs6.5m in
the year 2021-22.

The allocation for the Islamabad Traffic Police was slashed to Rs63.18 million from Rs67.52 million
for its operating expenses. However, an increase was made in transfer, repair and maintenance
budget.

The budget for the Special Branch was also decreased to Rs19.05m from Rs20.35m. The operating
expenses were slashed while repair and maintenance cost was increased.

The budget of the Security Division was cut to Rs123.32m from Rs131.82m.

The investigation wing will get Rs28.86m against Rs30.81m as the operating expenses.

The Counter-Terrorism Department has been allocated Rs669.16m against Rs673.06m of the ongoing
year.

4|Page