Jonglei 2011 budget under discussion
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April 30, 2011 (BOR) - The speaker of Jonglei assembly, Peter Chol
said there are difficulties with the draft state budget because it
lacks the neccessary salary break-downs, reserve funds and civil
servant housing allowances, in an interview with Sudan Tribune on 30
April.
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Sspeaker of Jonglei, Peter Chol at his office in Bor, 29 April, 2011 (ST)
The on-going budget discussion in Jonglei have met some obstacles:
unclear indication of the state work force and their grades for
salaries break downs, lack of housing allowances and lack of reserved
security funds for unseen future difficulties that need the
involvement of parliamentary specialized financial committee and help
the council of ministers.
Chol said it took seven days for the house to identify the weaknesses
and how to adjust them so that budget bill is ready for a third
reading. He said the seconding reading on the bill began on 19 April
when the budget bill was presented to the parliament by the Jonglei
minister of finance, Aquila Maluth Mam. He said the house took a
closer look at the bill and proposed the adjustment and additions of
the missing items.
He added that the assembly financial committee, in collaboration with
the council of ministers, to sit and make a final fair draft after
getting the required details from the ministries.
Chol said some ministries did not include housing allowances in their
drafts, and some alloted housing allowances only to workers at the
ministries headquarters, neglecting the county workers, linking it to
the strike that erupted in March this year from the ministry of
education where teachers refused to teach, asking the government to
pay them housing allowances.
“We cannot pass a crude budget”, Chol said. Chol mentioned that the
new financial year had started but the implementations will be
effective once the budget is approved by both the house and the state
governor.
(ST)
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