The Parliamentary Finance Committee of the Jordanian Parliament approved the two draft laws of the state budget and government units for the fiscal year 2021, while controlling spending and reducing the budget deficit, by reducing expenditures by 148 million dinars (207 million dollars), without this step having any impact on the level of services that offer to citizens.
The committee recommended that the budgets of the Ministries of Health, Education, and Labor should be supported and given priority, with the aim of raising the efficiency of the health sector and ensuring the continuity of providing high-quality health services to citizens.
The House of Representatives will hold a session today to discuss the decision of the Finance Committee on the draft General Budget Law and the Government Units Budgets Law for the fiscal year 2021, and vote on them chapter by chapter. In this context, the head of the committee, Dr. Nimer Al-Sulayhat, affirmed that "despite our awareness that this budget is the most difficult in the history of the country, we have endeavored to find a balance equation between the citizen's health and safety and the protection of the national economy." He explained that the budget amendments took into account the focus on advancing the national economy and removing it from the current recession, raising growth rates, contributing to addressing the problems of unemployment and poverty, improving the citizens' standard of living, easing their burdens and not charging them with any new taxes.
Source (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, Edited)
