Highlights Of Budget 2023-24
Umer Jamshaid Published June 09, 2023 | 10:04 PM
Following are the highlights of federal budget for fiscal year 2023-24 presented before the National Assembly by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar here on Friday: -The outlay of the federal budget 2023-24 has been estimated at Rs 14,460 billion
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Jun, 2023 ) :Following are the highlights of federal budget for fiscal year 2023-24 presented before the National Assembly by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar here on Friday: -The outlay of the federal budget 2023-24 has been estimated at Rs 14,460 billion -The revenue collection by the Federal board of Revenue has been estimated at Rs 9,200 billion out of which Rs 5,276 billion would be share of provinces -The federal non-tax revenues would be Rs 2,963 billion -The total income of the federal government would be Rs 6,887 billion -Rs7,303 billion would be spent on interest payment -The GDP growth rate has been estimated at 3.5 percent whereas as inflation would remain at around 21 percent approximately -The budget deficit has been calculated at 6.54 percent whereas Primary surplus would be 0.4 percent of GDP -During the next fiscal year the target of exports has been estimated at $30 billion and the remittances' target has been set at $33 billion -Rs 950 billion have been earmarked for Public Sector Development Programme for the upcoming fiscal year -In addition around Rs 200 billion additional amount would become part of development budget through Public Private Partnership -Rs1,804 billion have been earmarked for Defence and Rs 714 billion for Civil administration -Government set aside Rs 761 billion for Pension -The government would provide subsidy of Rs1,074 billion for electricity, gas and other sectors -The government allocated Rs 1,464 billion grant from Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Balitstan, merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, BISP, HEC, Railways and other departments.
-The government would issue Working Journalist Health Insurance Card and Artist Health Insurance Card -In addition, funds would be provided for welfare minorities, sports persons and students -Pension fund would be created to fulfill liability and expenditures of pensions in future -Total outlay of the PSDP for the fiscal year 2022-23 is Rs 2.709 trillion, which is only 2.6 percent of GDP.
- The share of the federal PSDP is Rs 1,150 billion while that of the provincial PSDP is Rs 1.559 trillion.
-Focus would be on project that are near completion so that these are completed by June 2024-52 percent of PSDP has been earmarked for building modern infrastructure to attract foreign direct investment
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