Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth…
lets forget the 2nd paragraph of your post. At least someone is getting something from Government :cobra:
I’ll appreciate this act 
If PM/President ll announce Motor Bikes for brilliant students then i’ll appreciate them as well leekan unn say kissi achai key tawaqa he naheen hay mujhay :hinna:
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
Heard , these Laptops have already started to grace the markets ..!!
,so soon...!!..??
Impatient people, I thought they would have waited another month or two.
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
Maybe some people of private institutions dont need the laptops
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
subsidize education instead of this
put caps on the school fees if they really want to help the lower and middle class
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there are news that they have taken the funds out of the amount kept for the schools.
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth…
An article detailing the flaws in the scheme and financial ramifications of it. I confirmed the specs before posting this link. Mismanagement unfortuntely 
By procuring 110,000 laptops with inferior and outdated processors through a local company instead of directly from the manufacturing company at a much higher than normal price, the Punjab government incurred a loss of at least Rs 1.7 billion to the provincial kitty, Daily Times has learnt.
The Punjab government has bought Dell laptops with outdated Pentium-D processors for Rs 4 billion at a rate of Rs 37,000 per laptop. But the retail market value of this machine is not more than a maximum of Rs 25,000.
In the case of purchase in bulk, the machine’s price would not have exceeded more than Rs 20,000 per piece. Thus, the Punjab government has paid a whopping amount of Rs 1.70 billion in excess of what it should have spent to buy the lot.
Sources say the Punjab government favoured the supplier company by providing it the payment in advance for opening the Letter of Credit (LC). This method is called back-to-back LC. The supplier invested no money of its own for the purchase, the sources added.
Under the law, a copy of any government’s contract worth more than Rs 500 million needs to be sent to NAB, but, intriguingly, the Punjab government has not done so, insiders said.
In addition, the laptops distributed by the provincial government do not carry any guarantee, which is in contrast to the normal practice despite the fact all such machines sold by distributors in the market carry at least a one-year guarantee.
The laptops distributed among Punjab’s students are made of Dell, China, bearing model InspironN4050, but the specifications of the machine distributed by the Punjab government are different from the same model in the market. The Dell-InspironN4050 runs on i3 or i5 processors while the machine provided by the government runs on Pentium-D processor – a processor which is slightly advanced than Pentium-4 but less powerful than Dual Core. Other specifications are as following: (a) Pentium-D processor – a 2.1 GHz processor (b) RAM 2 GB, DDR3, and (c) hard disk 320 GB.
The laptops have Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. The BIOS of the laptops is customised for Linux system and does not support Microsoft Windows, which is widely used in Pakistan. To install Microsoft Windows, the BIOS of the laptops requires upgrading that costs Rs 4,000 per laptop. The Punjab Planning and Development (P&D) Department has bought the machines while the Higher Education Department is responsible for the distribution.
Sources say the laptops have not been purchased directly from the Dell company, which is a normal way of procuring machines in bulk. Instead, the machines were procured through a Pakistani company. When machines in bulk are purchased by large companies or governments from the manufacturers, they are available in less than half the retail price. In this case, the machine’s realistic price could not be more than Rs 20,000 in the wholesale agreement. The government asked the interested parties to submit a hefty amount of Rs 30 million as a surety amount, which crowded out other bidders because they could not submit this amount. Only one company remained in the field and thus enjoyed virtual monopoly to fix the price of the laptops.
The government opened a back-to-back LC to favour the supplier. It means the government provided the company money in advance for opening the LC. Thus, the supplying company invested not a penny to buy these machines from Dell, China. The Punjab government provided all the money, while the supplier reaped huge benefits.
The processor and the motherboard of the laptops are a redundant technology for the last five years.** After the Pentium-D (a slightly modified version of Pentium-4) advanced processors of Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, i3, i5 and i7 were introduced in the market. No company now sells laptops of this P-4 technology. **The supplier has made huge profits by using low-quality, redundant and cheap processors in the laptops. The laptop machines with much-advanced processors are available even in the retail market in the same price of Rs 37,000.
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth…
Shahbaz Sharif is again distributing 110000 laptops as the elections are nearing. He could use it positively by spreading them within the taleban, as that would convert them from warriors to ‘keyboard warriors’ 
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
Shahbaz might as well start handing out cash to people in streets, would surely help the needy people a lot and will seal his victory in next elections?
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
Shahbaz Sharif is again distributing 110000 laptops as the elections are nearing. He could use it positively by spreading them within the taleban, as that would convert them from warriors to 'keyboard warriors' :D...
I fail to understand why they do not upgrade the computer labs at schools and colleges with this money instead of dishing out laptops to individuals.
Still better than central government though, dishing out jobs to in-laws. Rehman Malik is on duty to make this project a failure too, banning youtube! Facebook should be next and these laptops would be useless for the kids.
Re: New SCAM of Punjab Govt to fool youth......
Shahbaz might as well start handing out cash to people in streets, would surely help the needy people a lot and will seal his victory in next elections?
That department is already booked by the central govt. The benazir income support program ATM scheme is accomplishing exactly that.