President’s daily expense over Rs.20 million
The Presidency, the undemocratic post that is a burden to the country, has been allocated Rs. 20 million for a day from next year’s budget say reports.
According to the appropriation bill for the budget 2013 the President has been allocated a sum of Rs.7400 million which means a day’s expenditure is about Rs. 20 million.
Meanwhile, the largest allocations from next year’s budget are for ministries of Rajapaksas. This is confirmed from the manner funds have been allocated.
The President has been allocated Rs.7400 million, the Ministry of Defense has been allocated Rs.290,000 million, the Ministry of Highways Rs.131,610, Rs. 87460 million for the Ministry of Finance and Planning and Rs.88900 million for the Ministry of Economic Development. Thus, Rs. 604880 million has been allocated for ministries headed by members of Rajapaksa family. The total expenditure for 2013 is Rs.135,0000 million and compared to this nearly 45% of the allocations are for Rajapaksa family.
