The budget plan for fiscal year 1392 was rejected unanimously for the second time. Reportedly, from 145 Present MPs in the parliament, around a hundred of them voted ‘no’ over what they called as lack of transparency and discriminative budget allocation to provinces.

The budget plan was handed over by the Omer Zakhelwal, the minister to ministry of finance, to Mr. Ibrahimi, the chief of lower house of the parliament when MPs are engaged deeply in the issue of summoning thirty ministers who failed to spend more than  50 percent of their developmental budget.

Some local newspapers, recently reported of physical rattle within the parliament. Obviously, there is no problem with core budget which relates to salaries of public employees and their activities. The problem lies with the developmental budget which constitutes more than half of the total budget, 7 billion US dollar, and which precisely aims at reconstruction of economic infrastructures. But it is distributed to different provinces in a manner that frequently fuels harsh criticism from civil society as well as brings about hot debates among MPs.

During past years, both the public budget which largely depends on foreign donated money and foreign NGOs have concentrated on restive provinces. Some of the projects held in Helmand Province, for instance, were worth billions of dollars which unfortunately did not end in intended results too.

The case is similar with public budget. Certainly, if all 13 ministers are called in the parliament, their main reason behind would be security situation. They are, somehow, right. If the major part of the developmental budget refers to particular provinces where opposition armed activities are high, what they can do? The ugly part of this story is that every year mistake is repeated—budget allocation and failure to spend.

Meanwhile, the respectable officials never try to avoid repeating their mistakes due to ethnic orientation. They, for example, do not care for the small city of Bamyan, which still does not have electricity, water and access to even basic health care. They do not care if it takes poor people of Diakundi province two complete days to reach the capital. Why they should care if Diakundi people die on the way to Kabul from curable diseases when they themselves have all the facilities of life available without any trouble.