DUSHANBE, November 11, 2010, Asia-Plus — The draft national budget for 2011 will be discussed at today’s sitting of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament).
According to the Majlisi Namoyandagon press service, the draft national budget for the next year was endorsed by the government in late September and submitted for consideration to parliament in early October.
Revenues are projected to be 8.3 billion somoni and expenditures are estimated at 8.5 billion somoni. The budget deficit amounts to 200 million somoni.
The source said the budget indicators reflect the economic and social development of the country. Social spending will account for 48 percent of budget allocations, which is more than 4 billion somoni. “It is 31.2 percent, or 857.6 million somoni, more than it was projected by this year’s budget,” he said.
We will recall that the budget for 2010 standing at 6.6 billion somoni was endorsed by parliamentarians on November 11, 2009.
