Arakan State, in western Burma, requested an extra allocation of 46 billion Kyats from the Union budget for the 2014-2015 financial year but the Union only allocated the state an extra 19 billion kyats according to U Tha Nyunt, the deputy house speaker of the Arakan State Parliament.

He said: “Altogether 19.599 billion Kyats of extra allocation was provided in the 2014-2015 Union budget though we wanted more. We will discuss how to allocate the money in the state parliament session session starting on 11th November."

The 2014-2015 budget allocation of 198 billion kyats given to the Arakan State Government by the Union Government has already been spent on development work in 17 township projects. The Arakan Government argued that it needed the extra 46 billion kyats to complete the state's development projects.

U Tha Nyunt said: “The extra 46 billion Kyats was required by 12 Arakan government departments, but we received less than half of the amount [we needed]. Now we have to decide on the next course of action.”

He added that the union government had already given the state over 15 billion kyats of the extra budget.

Only two states had received an extra budget allocation for 2014 to 2015. They were Arakan State and Kachin State.