Monday November 12 2012
Kabul (BNA) Draft of 1392 national budget dispatched to the upper house of parliament (senate) for discussion by the ministry of finance and Govt. of Afghanistan has reported of 108 billion Afghani increase in the new budget for 1392 and an amount of Afghani 366.2 billion has been estimated for 1392 which include 196 billion development and another 170 billion for ordinary budget.
Based on the information received from ministry of finance, budget draft for 1392 which recently approved by the parliament is said that from overall budget 46% is expected to be provided by the international donors and the rest 54% from national sources.
Based on statement of minister of finance, the current budget draft has been prepared for the 12 fiscal months starting from first of Jaddi and completed on end of Qaws.
In the 1392 budget plan, 21% has been considered for road construction programs, 11% for energy and hydro power generators sector, 9% for agriculture sector, 8% for higher education sector and 4% has been allocated for health sector.
The $ 4.8 billion financial budget which had been prepared for the current year is now changed and the next budget would cover the whole 12 months while previously two to three months delay had been conducted while passing the budget due to summer holidays of the parliamentarians.
It’s said that in the new budget plan, various sectors same as education, health, mine extraction, energy and agriculture sector would received more money in the next budget.
Minister of finance Omar Zakhelwal says that 28% of the development budget is allocated to the ministry of defense, 13% to ministry of interior and 11% for development and reconstruction of districts.
Based on the constitution, representatives of the people in the Mishrano Jirga has fifteen days to present their views on the draft of the budget plan and later it would be dispatched to the house of representatives for approval.
Draft of the budget plan send off to the senate at a time after parliament had refused draft of the previous budget two times and accused the Govt. of not considering balance in the budget plan and later it persuaded Govt. in increase another $ 12 million to honor demands of the parliamentarians which followed controversy between Govt. and lawmakers.
It should be realized that Govt. servants have always criticized parliamentarians of delaying to pass the draft due to their low income and delay of their salaries.
Commenting on the budget plan, minister of parliamentary affairs said that the current budget has been prepared in the light of development strategy and emphasized that Govt. intends to dispatch it to the House of Representatives to pass it in the shortest time to ensure on time implementation of development projects by the ministries and Govt. organs.
