District Accounts and Development Funds Awaran
District Accounts
Awaran is a new district, notified on 11th November 1992. The Treasury Office has not yet been established at Awaran and the Treasury Office in Khuzdar handles the accounts of Awaran district. No separate income and expenditure statements of Awaran are available.
The income of Awaran is very limited and all the developmental as well as recurrent expenditures are met with financial assistance of the provincial government
Development Funds
Most of the development activities in the district are funded through the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). Development funds from federal and provincial resources are only partly administered at the district level. The local government institutions either do not have financial independence or they have limited income resources. Major development activities are directly administered from provincial level and it is sometimes hard to trace accurately which part specifically benefits the Awaran district. Moreover, in case of block allocations at the provincial level, accurate breakdown at the district level is not possible. The following statistics are only regarding those funds, which were specifically earmarked for Awaran district.
In 1995-96, a total amount of 4.662 million rupees was allocated for development activities under the revised Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in water supply schemes, college education, and primary health care sectors. This amount was earmarked for completion of 4 ongoing schemes. No new scheme was proposed in this budget while the ongoing schemes included construction of 2 water supply schemes at Killi Pirandar and Koharo Jhao, construction of an intermediate college at Awaran, and construction of an office and residence for the District Health Officer. For the year 1996-97, the total revised PSDP allocation was 1.3 million rupees for 3 ongoing development schemes. All the previous allocations have been made through national resources and no Foreign Project Assistance (FPA) has been involved in this regard in these years.
The current PSDP (1997-98) shows a total allocation of Rs. 17.2 million, including a foreign component of Rs. 3.2 million, for 12 schemes. These figures have to be treated however with some caution, because it is not certain that all the required PSDP funds can indeed be made available. The health sector under SAP takes the biggest share (Rs. 5.9 million), followed by college and secondary education (Rs. 4.45 million), irrigation (Rs 3.36 million) and primary education (Rs. 3.17 million). The SAP-sectors combined would receive 55% of the total allocation.