Ministries Only Spent 17% Budget in 5 Months of Fiscal Year:MoF

Minister of Finance Aklil Hakimi demanding more details over disability of the Ministers who couldn’t spend much of their development budget since five months passed from the fiscal year of 2015.

He expressed his deep concerns over the issue, asking the following Ministries to provide details on the aspect.

This has been a great challenge within the Governmental departments of Afghanistan in the past 13 years that none of the Ministers could have been capable to spend their allocated budgets in both development and common.

“We are in the 5^th months of the current fiscal year but unfortunately the development projects within the Governmental Ministries were spent only 17% this indicates that there are some challenges and obstacles ahead,issues should be addressed so that necessary measurements to be adopted said Minister of Finance Eklil Hakimi.”

However Ministry of Finance by the close cooperation of lower house of the parliament have launched a joint session over providing much information of the spending budgets and the over left of money allocated for the different projects in order to seek challenges and obstacles which stops Ministers spending their budgets.

Head of the Treasures in Ministry of Finance Mohammad Aqa Khohistani said,” in coming up summit all the chiefs are invited to pursue a regular program for spending budgets within those Ministries receiving allocated budgets, in order remove the existed challenges, the professional evaluation team from Ministry of Finance will visit each Ministry to help and assist the process.”

Afghanistan both budgets development and common has been estimated 458,8 billion Afghani where 275 billion Afghani goes to common budget, and 183 billion Afghani goes to development budget, we wait and see how much the Ministries and Governmental sectors are capable to spend their budgets in the last months of the fiscal year.

Reported by Rafi Sediqee