NA approves over Rs500bn in supplementary budget for FY25, Rs475bn for FY26
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The National Assembly on Wednesday approved a supplementary budget of Rs593.64 billion for the fiscal year 2024-2025 (FY24-25) and a sum of Rs475.05bn for the outgoing fiscal year (FY25-26).
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb moved a series of papers for approval during Wednesday’s session.
Under the Constitution, the government must secure parliamentary approval for the federal budget before any spending. This approval allows the government to spend specified funds for different heads. However, the government often seeks retrospective approval for additional amounts already spent, leaving the parliament with no choice but to regularise these expenditures.
The NA’s X account said Aurangzeb laid the Supplementary Authorised Expenditure 2024-2025 and 2025- 2026, along with other papers, before the house under Article 83 of the Constitution.
Dawn provides a breakdown of the additional amounts approved for spending during FY24-25 and FY25-26, which will conclude on June 30.
FY2024-25
The following supplementary grants were approved for FY24-25 (July 2024- June 2025):
Rs430.10bn for Power Division
Rs37.89bn for miscellaneous expenditure
Rs22.84bn for defence services
Rs22.15bn capital outlay on civil works
Rs5.79bn for both civil and armed forces
Rs5.61bn for Commerce Division
Rs5.60bn for development expenditure of Finance Division
Rs3.82bn for National Health Services
Rs2.69bn for Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)
Rs1.80bn for Information and Broadcasting Division
Rs1.43bn for educational institutions under the federal government, cantonments and garrisons
Rs1.26bn for other development expenditure
Rs1.25bn for Defence Division
Rs1.10bn for development expenditure of Interior Division
Rs750m for the development expenditure of Power Division
Rs300m for Cabinet Division
Rs250m was approved for the federal education and professional training division
Rs238.42m for National Food Security and Research Division
Rs207.97m capital outlay on Petroleum Division
Rs160.46m for Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Rs90.27m in respect of foreign missions
Rs64.82m for Airports Security Force
Rs50m for Parliamentary Affairs Division
Rs49.65m for the Law and Justice Division
Rs14m supplementary funds were approved for the Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan affairs division
The following grants were approved in “excess authorised expenditure” during FY24-25
Rs19.03bn for the combined civil armed forces
Rs15.63bn in development expenditure of Water Resources Division
Rs1.19bn for Law and Justice Division
Rs646.64m for the federal education and professional training division
Rs508.77m for foreign missions
Rs483.92m for superannuation allowances and pensions
Rs17.46m for the Communications Division
Rs2.57m for the Petroleum Division
Rs1.28m for district judiciary, ICT
These amounted to a total of Rs593.64bn in supplementary grants and excess expenditure for FY24-25.
Charged expenditure for FY24-25
Staff household and allowances president: Rs208.00m
Repayment of short-term foreign credits: Rs40.34bn
Audit: Rs63.00m
Repayment of domestic debt: Rs2,603.86bn
These totalled to Rs2,644.48bn.
Excess expenditures for FY24-25
Repayment of domestic debt: Rs1,915.92bn
Servicing of domestic debt: Rs169.32bn
Foreign loans repayment: Rs1.54bn
Superannuation allowances and pensions: Rs662.85m
Federal Tax Ombudsman: Rs81.52m
Repayment of short-term foreign credits: Rs32.81m
Federal Ombudsman Secretariat for Protection against Harassment of Women at workplace: Rs48,668
These totalled to Rs2,087.57bn.
FY2025-26
For FY25-26 (July 2025-June 2026), the following supplementary grants were approved:
Rs127.41bn for grants, subsidies and miscellaneous expenditure
Rs105.50bn for Power Division
Rs57.18bn federal education and professional training division
Rs33.96bn for defence services
Rs29.66bn for National Health Services
Rs22.35bn for poverty alleviation and social safety
Rs19.72bn other expenditure of interior and narcotics control
Rs13.82bn miscellaneous expenditure of Information and Broadcasting Division
Rs13.10bn for Petroleum Division
Rs10.00bn development expenditure of Revenue Division
Rs7.88bn capital outlay on civil works
Rs7.50bn for Commerce Division
Rs6.61bn capital outlay on Railways Division
Rs6.35bn development expenditure of Power Division
Rs5.00bn for Housing and Works Division
Rs4.25bn for Defence Division
Rs4.18bn development expenditure of the federal education and professional training division
Rs4.00bn for National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
Rs3.70bn for development expenditure of IT & Telecom Division
Rs2.37bn for federal miscellaneous investments and other loans
Rs2.08bn for Information Technology and Telecommunication Division
Rs1.57bn for the development expenditure of the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission
Rs1.47bn for Information and Broadcasting Division
Rs1.38bn combined civil armed forces
Rs967.50m for Cabinet Division
Rs960.27m for Interior and Narcotics Control Division
Rs536.07m other development expenditure
Rs344.73m development expenditure of Interior and Narcotics Control Division
Rs250.00m for National Security Division
Rs170.40m for Inter-Provincial Coordination division
Rs150.00m for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Division
Rs112.11m for other expenditure of Finance Division
Rs76.23m for Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) Division
Rs40.00m for the development expenditure of Defence Division
Rs27.42m for National Food Security and Research Division
These amounted to a total of Rs475.05bn in supplementary grants for FY25-26. ...