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the S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya different issues, after which they shall be submitted to the Khalifa for final approval. Thus every year the committee w ill fully scrutinize the budget proposals before they are presented to the Shura. During Majlis-e-Shura, the budget w ill also be considered by the sub-committee for Baitul Mai. Requests for supplementary grants received from various Departments w ill also be presented before the Standing Finance Committee so that it should bear that re sponsibility also. Nazir Sahib Baitul Mai w ill preside over this committee. ” [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1950, p. 22] P roposing I ncrease in the B udget On one occasion, Hadrat KJaallfatul Maslh IIIrh outlined the objectives o f the Standing Finance Committee, re viewed its performance, and laid out the procedure for proposing increase in the budget. Hudur said: “As I have just said, there are two aspects to the 1978- 1979 budget: the budget and the income. Whenever Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya deliberates upon a scheme, it does so on the basis o f the budget. Some time ago the D e partments o f Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya would effect increase in the budget without any principle. I therefore issued directives that they may make only ten percent in crease from the budget o f the previous year. Thus the budget would increase by ten percent every year. And this is the method they have follow ed ever since. This time when a detailed proposed budget was presented before the Finance Committee, it recommended a Rs. 1,600,000 increase from the previous year, and got their recommendation accepted. But when the budget was pre sented to me, I said that it was wrong to increase the 3 4 5