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Senate committee approves state budget bill
By JT - Jan 19,2016 - Last updated at Jan 19,2016
AMMAN — The Senate finance committee on Tuesday approved the draft laws on the state budget and the budget of independent government institutions as referred by the Lower House.
At a committee meeting, Municipal Affairs Minister Walid Masri briefed senators on his ministry’s budget allocations.
Some JD205 million of the JD340 million budget, he said, was allocated for capital spending in 2015, compared with only JD7 million in 2012 out of a JD180 million budget. The ministry’s debt dropped to JD79 million in 2015, compared with JD120 million in 2013, Masri said.
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