Damascus-Sana
President Bashar Al-Assad referred to the People's Assembly today the draft of the state budget bill for the fiscal year 2021 for presentation to the parliament.
And the Council of Ministers approved during its session last Tuesday the final version of the state budget bill for the fiscal year 2021, amounting to 8500 billion Syrian pounds, compared to 4000 billion pounds for the 2020 budget.
In the 2021 budget, public expenditures were divided into two items of current expenditures of about 7 thousand billion pounds and 1500 billion pounds, which are investment spending, as the allocations included about 3500 billion pounds for social support, 50 billion for the agricultural production support fund, and 50 billion for the social aid and development fund for rural women.