A meeting of the interim cabinet under Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi approved the budget on Monday.

The budget which will apply through November to February and will have a total size of Rs2076.2 billion.

In the budget, Rs35 billion have been set aside for development expenditure and Rs50 billion to provide ‘relief’ to the public.

An allocation of Rs222 billion has been made for education and Rs208 billion for health. The government has also set aside Rs5 billion for the Punjab textbook board.

The budget also carries allocation of Rs10 billion for agriculture and Rs1.8 billion for National Health Support Program.

The government has also decided to enforce the minimum wage introduced in the previous budget from July. The wage had been set at Rs32,000.