Rs 31.921 bn budget presented in GB Legislative Assembly

GILGIT: The budget of Gilgit-Baltistan for the next fiscal year with a total outlay of above Rs 31 billion was presented on Sunday.

Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-Ur-Rehman presented the budget in the GB Legislative Assembly.

Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Fida Muhammad Noushad chaired the session.

The newly elected PML-N government of GB has taken over the charge a couple of days ago and due to shortage of time the session has been summoned on Sunday.

The Assembly will pass the budget before the start of the next fiscal year falling on 1st of the next month.

Rs 21.984 billion have been allocated for non-development expenditures while 9.937 billion rupees for the development expenditures.