An attempt has been made to gather data on government income collected in Kohlu district and deposited in the District Treasury and on government expenditures spent in the district. Although these data are incomplete, and most probably not fully reliable, one still can have an idea about the district accounts. It is evident from the given data that in 1995-96 the government income has decreased to about two-third (68.6%) of the total income in 1994-95. Although the income has increased in productive sectors like agriculture and animal husbandry a major decrease has been observed in the income from state trading of food and from Zakat. On the other hand, a major increase in the government expenditure is due to increase in recurrent expenditure. The development expenditure in 1994-95 has decreased to 1.2 percent of the total expenditure as compared to 3.7 percent in 1995-96. However these figures do not include the block allocations made at provincial level and amounts allocated under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for development activities in the district. It can safely be assumed that in the present circumstances, there is no financial self-sufficiency for Kohlu District.

The preceding paragraph has made it clear that funds for substantial social and economic development have to come from outside Kohlu. The most important source of finance for developmental activities is the provincial Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP).

The revised allocation in the PSDP for the financial year 1995-96 amounted to 8.12 million rupees tot complete 10 ongoing projects in Kohlu. None of these projects had a foreign assistance component. No new scheme was proposed in PSDP 1995-96. In the next year (1996-97), the allocation increased to 104.213 million rupees, including Foreign Project Assistance (FPA) of 50 million rupees, to complete 6 ongoing schemes. Again no new scheme was proposed this year. The PSDP for 1997-98 gives a much different picture.

The overall allocation stands at 44.292 million rupees, including a foreign component of 28.502 million rupees, for 9 ongoing and 6 new schemes. The road sector is with rupees 35 million by far the biggest recipient, followed by primary education (Rs. 3.171 million), public health engineering (Rs. 2.679 million) and primary health (Rs. 2.288 million). These figures have to be treated with some caution however, since it is not certain whether the provincial government can secure enough finances to underwrite the whole PSDP.