Luanda – The proposal for the revision of the State Budget for 2010, approved Friday by the Cabinet Council expects a wage increase of 5,4 per cent for civil servants and gives the green light to the government efforts to achieve a more balanced distribution of national income.

The revised state budget foresees the promotion of rural development and the improvement of the local administrations managing, increase of the quality of public investments in infrastructures and social equipments, so as the offer of health and education services to the population, according to a communiquee of the meeting chaired by president Jose Eduardo dos Santos. 

The state budget also expects the diversification of domestic production of consumer goods to relpace imports and promote exports, improvement of marketing channels and the extension of the financial system throughout the country. 

The revised budget includes resources needed for pensioners of the Defense Ministry, the extension of the population access to the education system and frist health care and the reduction of maternal and child juvenile mortality.

Reversing the trend of worsening the prevalence of Hiv-Aids and the rate of the incidence of TB, trypanosomiasis and malaria are also goals outlined in the budget.

An important innovation of the revised budget is the establishing of a fund of 100,000 barrels of the country's oil daily production to finance the construction of basic infrastructures, mainly those directed to electrical power and water supply network.