{"id":76554,"date":"2025-06-04T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=76554"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:34:19","slug":"it-ministry-sees-43-budget-cut-in-fy-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/it-ministry-sees-43-budget-cut-in-fy-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Ministry sees 43% budget cut in FY 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government is all set to reduce the development <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/imf-agrees-to-income-tax-relief-for-salaried-class-in-upcoming-budget-2025-26\/\">budget<\/a> of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication by 43% for the fiscal year of 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The amount for the Ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/profit-repatriation-by-foreign-companies-surges-115-in-fy-2024-25-sbp\/\">Information Technology<\/a> is estimated to be Rs 13.52 billion, dropping from Rs23.92 billion of last&#8217;s year as per the budget documents.<\/p>\n<p>According to official budget documents, the IT Ministry\u2019s development allocation has been decreased by Rs10.4 billion, dropping from last year\u2019s Rs23.92 billion to Rs13.52 billion in the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p>Rs3.64 billion would come from domestic resources, while Rs9.88 billion is expected from international aid.<\/p>\n<p>This cut in the budget contradicts what government claims to prioritize the digitalization process in the country and making the IT sector a cornerstone of economic growth and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, according to official budget documents, the\u00a0federal government is proposing a more than 114 percent increase in the Ministry of Defense&#8217;s development budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s allocation is expected to increase from Rs5.386 billion this year to Rs11.554 billion \u2013 a move that signals a significant shift in national spending priorities towards defense and security.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of Home Affairs is also set to see its development budget increase from Rs9.78 billion to Rs10.91 billion, with a proposed increase.<\/p>\n<p>However, this defense-oriented approach comes at the expense of several key civilian sectors, which face substantial budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Climate Change\u2019s development budget is proposed to be reduced from Rs5.26 billion to Rs2.784 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government is all set to reduce the development budget of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication by 43% for the fiscal year of 2025-26. The amount for the Ministry of Information Technology is estimated to be Rs 13.52 billion, dropping from Rs23.92 billion of last&#8217;s year as per the budget documents. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":76555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[9767,29278],"class_list":["post-76554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-technology","tag-it-ministry","tag-fy-2025-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76557,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76554\/revisions\/76557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}