Revenue wars: AJK cupboard blocks legislature from collecting duties
Shuts down PPHI programme in 3 districts, drops highway construction devise as purgation measure.
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MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Cabinet motionless on Monday to stop a Kashmir Council from collecting a ubiquitous sales taxation (GST) and dig avocation in a region.
However, Kashmir Council can collect a other taxes.
The preference has been taken in a arise of a AJK government’s skeleton to settle a possess dialect to collect these taxes. The taxation and dig departments in AJK are directly tranquil by a sovereign supervision by Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan.
“The AJK supervision will settle a possess dialect to collect GST and dig avocation to boost a income,” pronounced Finance Minister Dr Najeeb Naqi and Information Minister Mustaq Minhas while lecture a media after Monday’s cupboard meeting. The cabinet, presided over by Prime Minister Farooq Haider Khan, has also motionless to privatise a recently built Prime Minister House, that was assembled during a cost of Rs700 million underneath a Urban Development Programme in earthquake-hit area of Muzaffarabad.
Dr Naqi serve pronounced that to foster purgation in a region, they have motionless to dump a plan to erect over 105 kilometers roads that would couple a opposite traveller spots with any other in all 10 districts. He did not explain because a preference was taken to dump a plan that could have helped pierce some-more income to a region. The cupboard also authorized a pierce to remember over 274 supervision employees portion during a residences of late officers.
The supervision has also motionless to close down Peoples Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) in 3 districts of AJK. Under a programme, special teams have been delegated to guard doctors during Basic Health Units in in Mirpur, Kotli and Muzaffarabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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