The extra funds will be assigned at the budget revision to be carried out at the end of October, and will be ensured from telecom license fees and funds redirected from other sectors.
Extra funds will also be allotted to pay recalculated military pensions, said the ministry.
The budget was last revised in August, when the Government allotted 500 million lei (EUR109.5 million) to pay arrears to firms and RON100 million to city halls to pay wages. Funds for people with disabilities and their caretakers were also increased by RON100 million.
According to the ministry, the revision will not lead to the increase of the country’s budget deficit.
Romania wants to reduce its budget gap to 2.2% of GDP in 2012, from 4.3% of GDP a year earlier.
The mobile operators which won a recent auction awarding telecom licenses will pay EUR682.14 million for their licenses in two tranches: EUR204.14 million by November 30 and EUR477.99 million by June 30, 2013. (EUR1=RON4.5687)