Parliament omits supplementary budget from Wed agenda
The Democrats on Tuesday said the supplementary budget was prepared illegally because it lacked details.
By
Aminath Shifleen
The agenda of Wednesday's sitting of the parliament has been fixed without tabling the supplementary budget proposed by the government.
The government presented a supplementary budget of MVR 6.5 billion to parliament on last Wednesday. The budget was on the agenda on Tuesday but the sitting could not proceed due to lack of quorum.
The supplementary budget is not on the agenda for Wednesday's session.
Supplementary budget in brief:
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Increase in subsidies - MVR 1.8 billion
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Addition to Aasandha - MVR 1.2 billion
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PSIP (for projects) - MVR 1.7 billion
The Democrats on Tuesday said the supplementary budget was prepared illegally because it lacked details.
In a letter to Nasheed, The Democrats’ Parliamentary Group leader, Central Henveiru MP Ali Azim said:
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The supplementary budget has been prepared and submitted not in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance Act and relevant regulations
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The supplementary budget does not provide details of the expenditure incurred by the state in the last financial year and the revenue earned by the state
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The details of the programmes to be funded by the special budget under the housing ministry as well as the finance ministry, which constitute a large portion of the expenditure allocated in the supplementary budget, are not clearly known.
