{"id":22180,"date":"2026-06-09T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22180"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:10:22","slug":"punjab-budget-decision-made-on-salaries-and-pensions-of-government-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22180","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Budget: Decision Made on Salaries and Pensions of Government Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A decision has been made regarding salary increases for Punjab government employees in the upcoming fiscal year&#8217;s budget, with adjustments expected to follow the federal government&#8217;s policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Punjab has proposed allocating Rs650 billion for salaries and Rs505.8 billion for pensions in the next budget.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial revenue collections are projected to reach Rs1.33 trillion during the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed budget also includes an allocation of Rs800 billion for the Punjab Finance Commission, while Rs25 billion has been earmarked for social protection initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Rs150 billion has been proposed for the Clean Punjab Program.<\/p>\n<p>Budget recommendations suggest allocating Rs580.2 billion for operational expenditures and Rs221.9 billion for various investment programs.<\/p>\n<p>Sources further indicate that Rs54 billion may be allocated for externally funded development projects, while Rs570 billion has been proposed for development and capital expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Under the draft budget, Punjab\u2019s total expenditures are expected to reach Rs3.569 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision has been made regarding salary increases for Punjab government employees in the upcoming fiscal year&#8217;s budget, with adjustments expected to follow the federal government&#8217;s policy. According to sources, Punjab has proposed allocating Rs650 billion for salaries and Rs505.8 billion for pensions in the next budget. Provincial revenue collections are projected to reach Rs1.33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,46],"tags":[12266,6459,12304,1214,12301,745,3662,12302,12305,12300,10308,12303,911,6895,12135],"class_list":["post-22180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-budget-2026-27","tag-budget-proposals","tag-clean-punjab-program","tag-development-projects","tag-fiscal-year-2026-27","tag-government-employees","tag-pension","tag-provincial-budget","tag-public-expenditure","tag-punjab-budget","tag-punjab-economy","tag-punjab-finance-commission","tag-punjab-government","tag-salary-increase","tag-social-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22182,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions\/22182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}