Mayor demands announcement of PFC Award

Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar has written a letter to the finance minster and chairman of the Provincial Finance Commission (PFC), demanding that a formula or award for the commission should be announced as early as possible so that equitable funds could be released to all local councils of the province, including the Karachi Municipal Corporation. 

He has asked the government to provide additional funds to all councils till the finalisation of the PFC award to the extent of the payment of salaries and to provide basic municipal services to citizens.

According to the letter, as the due share of the PFC has been decided and the share of local councils determined, the government should decide the share of municipal development funds out of the total provincial Annual Development Programme on the pattern of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s PFC. 

The mayor requested provision of an additional grant in aid/or an increase in OZT to RS200million per month in addition to the existing financial share (OZT Rs132.686 and grant in aid Rs300 million totalling RS432.686million), “thereby making total government receipts to Rs632million per month so that the KMC could survive till a fair and transparent PFC Award is announced”.