KARACHI:
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah convened a high-level cabinet meeting to discuss the province’s budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year 2025-26 with special focus on the government’s commitment to inclusive development, poverty alleviation, and sustainable progress.
The CM outlined the core focus areas of the new budget, emphasising water supply and drainage, solar energy expansion, education, healthcare, agriculture, and industrial growth.
The meeting particularly discussed the rehabilitation of flood-affected people, repair of schools and hospitals, launching new mega projects through Public-Private Partnerships to boost infrastructure and services, strengthening social protection programmes aimed at eradicating poverty and increasing budget allocations for repair and maintenance, as well as upgrading hospital equipment and completion of transport projects in Karachi to improve urban mobility.
Proposals given by the cabinet members include reducing non-development expenditures and empowering local governments to become financially self-reliant, introducing digital cash transfers with incentives to enhance social welfare delivery, expanding solid waste management and solar energy systems across the province, and constructing new bus stands in multiple districts to improve public transportation.
