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 regularize these expenditures.
The NA’s X account said Aurangzeb laid the Supplementary Authorized 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 defense 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 Defense 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 authorized 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 totaled to Rs2,644.48bn.
Excess charged expenditure 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 totaled 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 defense services
- Rs29.66bn for National Health Services
- Rs22.35bn for poverty alleviation and social security
- 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 Defense 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 Defense Division
- Rs27.42m for National Food Security and Research Division
These amounted to a total of Rs475.05bn in supplementary grants for FY25-26.
Charged expenditure for FY25-26
- Repayment of domestic debt: Rs12,624.8bn
- Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan: Rs2.25bn
- Elections: Rs455.98m
These totaled to Rs12,645.5bn.
