Staff Reporter Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the provincial government is facing a shortfall of Rs144 billion in the federal revenue transfers, therefore the development endeavours made all over Sindh have been affected badly. This he said while presiding over three different meetings here on Friday at CM House to review on-going district development portfolio of Matiari, TM Khan and Tando Allahyar. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, provincial ministers Nisar Khuhro, Syed Nasir Shah, Shabir Bijarani, Saeed Ghani, Chairman P&D M, Waseem, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Finance Hassan Naqvi, Secretary LG Roshan Shaikh, Secretary Irrigation Saeed Mangnijo, Secretary Works Imran Soomro, Secretary Colleges Rafiq Buriro, Secretary school education Khalid Hyder Shah, Commissioner and DIG Hyderabad division, all MNAs, MPAs and other elected representatives of concerned districts. The chief minister said that his government has received Rs378.3 billion against an its share of Rs522.1 billion which showed a shortfall of Rs143.8 billion this date. He added that even then his government was committed to completed the on-going development schemes and news schemes would be launched in the next financial year. In Matiari district 48 schemes of Rs1.6 billion are in progress. The finance department has released Rs929.6 million means 58 percent of the total allocation and the utilization is Rs593.5 million which is 64 percent of the releases. Tando Mohammad Khan District has 45 schemes of Rs1.1 billion against which the government has released Rs677.4 million which is 59 percent of the allocation while the utilization is Rs441.2 million which is 65 percent of the releases.
