Peshawar – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman has surrendered and deposited an amount of Rs9,6021,222 fund (Rs90.6021 million) in the provincial kitty which were available at his disposal for utilisation in erstwhile FATA.
Over Rs90 million’s funds accumulated in the Governor’s designated merged tribal districts account during the three fiscal years that is 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 as the government released Rs44,808,000 in F/Y 2019-20 out of which Rs20,600,000 were spent as per policy and Rs10 million were surrendered/deposited in the government treasury in 2020. Similarly for the financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22 respectively Rs44,808,000 funds were transferred in the merged districts’ account each year and nothing was spent out of it.
It is pertinent to mention here that Governor Shah Farman has surrendered huge amounts with a view that after FATA merger tribal areas have become part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and now it was domain of the provincial government to utilise these funds for the development and prosperity of tribal districts.
Governor Shah Farman in his views said that FATA merger has now been completed successfully and now it is responsibility of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to use these funds under the designated head of merged districts for uplift of people. He assured to continue his imperative role in development of NDMs.