2020–21 Pakistan federal budget explained

Federal Budget
Year:2020–2021
Previous Budget:2019–20 Pakistan federal budget
Previous Year:2019–20
Next Budget:2021-2022 Pakistan Federal Budget
Next Year:2021–2022
Submitter:Hammad Azhar
Submitted To:National Assembly
Presented:12 June 2020
Parliament:Pakistan
Minister:Abdul Hafeez Shaikh
Treasurer:Ministry of Finance

The Federal budget 2020–2021 is the federal budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year beginning from 1 July 2020 and ending on 30 June 2021. The budget was presented in the Parliament by the Federal Minister Hammad Azhar.[1] It is also called Corona budget as it was presented during the Corona Crisis.[2] The government called the budget a Relief budget but major opposition parties PPP and PML-N called it People's enemy budget.[3]

Features

The total size of the budget is billion.[2]

billion for defense, billion for education (7.9 per cent from higher than the last budget), billion were allocated for preventing coronavirus, billion for special economic zones. No new taxes were introduced in the budget.[2] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi confirmed that defence spending was not raised for the second consecutive year.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FULL DETAILS: Pakistan's Budget 2020–21 presented by Hammad Azhar. June 12, 2020. ARY NEWS.
  2. News: Pakistan unveils Rs 7.13 trillion budget, defence gets around 1.3 trillion. 13 June 2020. 13 June 2020.
  3. News: Opp chants slogans in NA, stages walkout during budget speech. 13 June 2020. 13 June 2020.
  4. News: Defence budget not increased to provide relief to masses: Qureshi . June 14, 2020 . . Karachi.