Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has stressed for assigning priorities to
health and agriculture sectors in the next provincial budget 2020-21 as fighting coronavirus and locust attacks shall be the top-most agenda to save human lives and avert famine and food insecurity.
During a briefing through video-conference by Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Coordinator to Chief Minister for Social Protection Haris Gazdar, Chairman Planning & Development Waseem Ahmed and Secrteray Finance Syed Hassan Naqvi, the PPP Chairman said that Sindh has to prepare a poor-friendly budget within the available resources to cater to the needs of the people in an era or multiple crises.
Chief Minister and his team apprised the Chairman about the additional allocations for COVID-19 response schemes, social protection and poverty reduction programmes so that repercussions of COVID-19 and the locust attacks could be mitigated.
Murad Ali Shah also informed the Party Chairman that Sindh government plans to extend subsidies to the small farmers on export quality rice seeds, fertilizers and pesticides to compensate the agriculture sector in the wake of locust attack.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari pointed out that the issue of reduction of Federal transfers harmed the Provincial strategies during the current financial year as the province received Rs229 billion less than its share of Rs 835 billion by the PTI’s Federal government. “This is a great injustice to Sindh and other provinces,” he added.
PPP Chairman asked Chief Minister and his team to formulate a pro-people and pro-poor budget within the meager resources and receipts due to the COVID-19, locust attacks and the negligence-cum-incompetence of the Federal government.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/2020/06/07/chairman-ppp-bilawal-bhutto-zardari-exhorts-sindh-to-work-out-poor-friendly-budget-by-prioritizing-health-agriculture-sectors-poverty-reduction/
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