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Concern voiced over meagre budget allocations for Hazara
She claimed that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak allocated Rs5.1 billion for his home district **wshera and it was more than the total allocation of Rs4.5 billion made in the budget for the six districts of Hazara division. Talking to The News, she pointed out that **wshera’s share in the budget 2016-17 was 3.22 percent of the total development outlay of Rs161 billion. It is even higher than 3.08 given to **wshera in the preceding year,” she stressed. Terming the budget distribution unfair, she said that Haripur district with an allocation of Rs2.18 billion got the lion’s share accounting for 1.35 percent of the total development budget of the province. “Less than half of this amount, or Rs0.95 billion, has been given to Abbottabad, accounting for 0.59 per cent of the total. Torghar fares about the same with Rs0.78 billion or 0.50 of the total. Worse-off are Kohistan and Battagram that have received pittance. Kohistan has allocated just Rs0.17 billion or 0.11 per cent of total development funds and Battagram has a paltry Rs0.08 billion or 0.05 per cent of the total development outlay,” she added. Rashida Dohad said that Kohistan was chronically poor and its people had endured unspeakable devastation caused by earthquakes in 2005 and 2015 and floods in 2010.She said that this year the pre-monsoon rains triggered massive landslides cutting off parts of Kohistan from the rest of the country for more than 10 days. Rashida Dohad said that people in this disaster-affected Kohistan were still compelled to cover miles of distance on foot as bridges connecting the valleys had been washed away.She maintained that food security was also at risk as many water mills used to grind wheat were also swept away in Kohistan. “And yet Kohistan has been given only 0.11 per cent of the development budget. Battagram too has suffered immeasurably due to natural disasters but it has been allocated Rs80 million only,” she added. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Concern voiced over meagre budget allocations for Hazara || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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