Finance Jaffarabad
District Accounts and Development Funds
District Accounts
The intention was to collect data on resource mobilisation by government institutions in the district, on transfers from outside the district and on expenditures in or on behalf of the district. With this information some insight would have been obtained with regard to the flows of money in and out of the district and within the district.
Efforts to get a more or less complete picture however failed. The result of the efforts was a collection of fragmented data with much information on some, but with no information on other streams. But even on the basis of this pertical picture one can safely conclude that the district does not collect enough resources internally to cover the costs of all public expenditures. The district is dependent, and this is no exception in the province, on transfers from outside to run its affairs and to undertake development activities. This means, given the present system, that much of the decision making process on the development of the district, lies outside its boundaries.
Development Funds
The major source for development in the district of Balochistan is the provincial Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP).
The funds for the PSDP originate from the development budget of the provincial government and from contributions from donors.
For each financial year separate PSDP's are compiled by the government and approved by the Provincial Assembly.
The revised PSDP-allocation for the year 1995-96 amounted to Rs. 60.138 million for 11 projects, with no foreign assistance component. The following year, 1996-97, the allocation decreased to Rs. 52.1 million for five projects, again without any foreign component.
The PSDP for 1997-98 shows a growth in the allocation to Rs. 72.74 million, including foreign assistance of Rs. 4.04 million.
The amount is earmarked for 20 projects. The combined SAP sector would receive Rs. 6.18 million (8.5%) and the non-SAP activities Rs. 66.56 million (91.5%). By far the biggest sector is irrigation with 61.3 %, followed by roads with 22%.
These figures have to be seen as provisional, because it is not yet clear whether the provincial government can avail of all the funds needed to finance the PSDP.