{"id":50508,"date":"2019-03-10T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50508"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:22:31","slug":"ict-admins-aiming-for-a-higher-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ict-admins-aiming-for-a-higher-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"ICT admins aiming for a higher budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is seeking the prime minister\u2019s approval for increasing ICT\u2019s annual budget to Rs2.8bn, a news source reported. This goal will be realised using the tax revenues generated by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad generates PKR 4.6 billion in taxes through its excise &amp; taxation and revenue departments each year. However, this figure goes directly to the national exchequer rather than being spent on the city\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/islamabad-master-plan-to-include-education-health-reforms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamabad Master Plan to include education, health reforms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local administration is trying to achieve the goal set by Prime Minister Imran Khan to turn Islamabad into a model city. However, it requires additional funding, stronger departments, and new posts, to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad\u2019s annual budget currently stands at PKR 1.3bn. If approved, the new figure mentioned will be incorporated in the 2019-20 budgetary proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/islamabad-airport-metro-bus-project-to-complete-by-dec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamabad airport metro bus project to complete by Dec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An official contended that Islamabad Capital Territory lacks several key departments and functions. He noted that there is no food authority, no cooperative department, and no forest department. He also added that several existing departments are understaffed, or have not been modernised like the excise and taxation department, resulting in huge losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is seeking the prime minister\u2019s approval for increasing ICT\u2019s annual budget to Rs2.8bn, a news source reported. This goal will be realised using the tax revenues generated by the city. Islamabad generates PKR 4.6 billion in taxes through its excise &amp; taxation and revenue departments each year. However, this figure goes directly to the national exchequer rather than being spent on the city\u2019s development. Read:\u00a0Islamabad Master Plan to include education, health reforms The local administration is trying to achieve the goal set by Prime Minister Imran Khan to turn Islamabad into a model city. However, it requires additional funding, stronger departments, and new posts, to do so. Islamabad\u2019s annual budget currently stands at PKR 1.3bn. If approved, the new figure mentioned will be incorporated in the 2019-20 budgetary proposal. Read:\u00a0Islamabad airport metro bus project to complete by Dec An official contended that Islamabad Capital Territory lacks several key departments and functions. He noted that there is no food authority, no cooperative department, and no forest department. He also added that several existing departments are understaffed, or have not been modernised like the excise and taxation department, resulting in huge losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":38668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10984],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-50508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-ict-admins-aiming-for-a-higher-budget"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICT admins aiming for a higher budget - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is seeking the prime minister\u2019s approval for increasing ICT\u2019s annual budget to Rs2.8bn, a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ict-admins-aiming-for-a-higher-budget.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICT admins aiming for a higher budget - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is seeking the prime minister\u2019s approval for increasing ICT\u2019s annual budget to Rs2.8bn, a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ict-admins-aiming-for-a-higher-budget.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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