*ISLAMABAD: *For the first time ever, the National Assembly Secretariat hassaved almost Rs638.69 million from the budget allocated for the fiscal year2018-19.
The massive saving of the budget which makes up to 18% of the total budgetwas made on directives of the National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser underan austerity drive.
Qaiser soon after assuming charge of speaker of the lower house had issueddirectives to adopt austerity to reduce expenses of the secretariat and hadalso issued orders to reduce unnecessary expenses without affecting theperformance of the secretariat.
Similarly, the Finance Ministry has also been duly informed about thesaving and the total amount was saved by observing austerity under variousexpenses allocated for the secretariat in the budget.
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The secretariat made savings in lieu of petrol, gifts, entertainment,foreign tours and travelling expenses of the assembly members.
