KARAK: The Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil council on Thursday approved the Rs150.67 million deficit budget for the tehsil in financial year 201617.

Of the total outlay, Rs100.42 million was earmarked for development schemes.

The budget session was presided over by council convener Haji Shahabuddin and attended by both male and female councillors.

Tehsil nazim Attaullah Khattak informed the house that the provincial government had provided Rs10.72 million for the tehsil`s development and that the tehsil would generate rest of the budgetary allocations from own resources.

He said Rs30.8 million had been earmarked for the payment of salary to government employees in the current fiscal.

The nazim said the budget deficit had come to Rs10 million and that a request would be put up to the relevant provincial authorities for the announcement of a special financialpackage for the Talcht-i-Nusrati Tehsil Municipal Administration.

He said the tehsil government had been striving to reduce expenditure to minimise the budget deficit and provide better amenities to the people.

PROTEST: The Chountra Welfare Organisation, a rights organisation, on Thursday organised a protest at Kamran Shaheed Chowk against lack of facilities in the region.

Malik Gul Bad Shah, Isam Jan and other speakers complained about the handing over of the records of agricultural tubewells by the Pesco to the National Accountability Bureau for action against defaulters and said people should be given a chance to settle the issue with the power company through dialogue.

They also resented the crackdown of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited against illegal gas connections in the district and demanded provision of legal connections to gas consumers to pay monthly bills.

The speakers warned the people would resist gas disconnection if the SNGPL didn`t give them legal connections.