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No new tax imposed in the proposed budget.

-- GST on construction services reduced from 16 percent to 5 percent

-- No fee on registration of new firms

-- Current expenditure Rs 1020.8 billion and ADP allocation Rs 635 billion - 32.22 percent of the total budget

-- Education sector allocated Rs 335.9 billion and health sector Rs 226.7 billion, Rs 78 billion reserved for school and primary education, Rs 25 billion for primary and secondary health care and Rs 57 billion for water supply and sanitation

-- Rs 201 billion reserved for social sector and basic facilities

-- A total of Rs 172 billion will be spent on roads, energy, public buildings, urban development and infrastructure

-- Rs 149 billion to be spent to maintain law and order

-- Rs 258 billion reserved for the salaries, Rs 173 billion for pensions and Rs 361 billion for local government and community development

-- Admission percentage in primary schools in Punjab recorded at 98 percent. The government aims at 100 percent attendance in schools under ''Parho Punjab, Barho Punjab''

-- 44.61 billion reserved for Higher Education Commission (HEC Rs 20 billion to be spent to upgrade DHQs and THQs in Punjab

-- Rs 21 billion reserved for development of agriculture, Rs 9.5 billion for livestock and Rs 41 billion for irrigation schemes

-- Provision of 100 mobile health units to facilitate people in far flung areas of South Punjab - Additional 20 CT scan machines would be installed in district-level hospitals

-- Government of Punjab claims to have saved unbelievable Rs 220 billion of funds reserved for several development projects

-- Thousands of schools to be shifted to solar energy under Khadim-e-Punjab Programme Rs 88 billion for special programmes / initiatives

-- This was the tenth budget presented by Shahbaz Sharif government since 2008-09.



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