Islamabad: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Cabinet Division has
expressed its displeasure for not issuing Rs. 3 billion in the head of
developmental projects on the recommendation of the parliamentarians .
Acting
Chairman of the committee Senator Safdar Abbasi presided over the
meeting that decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf
Raza Gillani in which it would be suggested that development funds of
Rs 6 billion might be allocated for the members of the parliaments out
of PM’s Rs. 28 billion discretionary funds.
The committee also
showed resentment over the non-issuance of Rs 3 billion arrears of the
development funds of the parliamentarians from 2008 to 2011. The
non-issuance of funds resulted non-completion of many projects.
During
the meeting Secretary Cabinet Division Nargis Saithi told the standing
committee that the development fund to the parliamentarians were issued
on political grounds so it would be better that the member of the
parliaments may talk to Prime Minister directly.
The meeting
was informed that Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani wrote some
926 recommendation letters for the development projects of the
parliamentarians out of which funds were issued on about 809 letters,
whereas last year funds of Rs 21.2 billion were issued out of total
grant of Rs 25 billion.
The committee was also apprised that Rs
11.36 billion were issued to Punjab, Rs 4.1 billion to Sindh, Rs3.2
billion to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rs 1.34 billion to Baluchistan, Rs 1.4
billion to AJK and Rs 409 million to FATA during last financial year. Online
