Performance of Punjab Government

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Re: Performance of Punjab Government

@Ali_Syed

Time and again I have been opening threads regarding the performance of the national government, lets see the performance of the Punjab government (the government in waiting).

1. Sasti roti scheme, a complete failure which threw billions of ruppes of the taxpayers down the tandoors…

It was a political stunt, a flopped one and yes no govt should be doing this kind of blunders…

@Ali_Syed

2. Kalma Chowk underpass, which was baing made has been put on hold on 19th of August (wastage of further billions of rupees) although five days back Shahbaz Sharif was announcing another under pass after the kalma chowk one… Kalma Chowk underpass-put on hold

Only if you red what is written in the link you have posted you may not have posted this one, here what they have to say:

Officials suggested that there were two reasons the government has decided to delay building the underpass at Kalma Chowk.
A Planning and Development official said that the project could have had a negative impact on plans to build the Lahore Rapid Mass Transit System (LRMTS).
“We were surprised when Shahbaz Sharif gave the green light to C&W for the project as the Chinese [consultants for the LRMTS] had expressed concern about the effect that building an underpass at Kalma Chowk would have,” he said.
The consultants, as well as the Planning and Development Department, had asked the government to delay the underpass until a feasibility study of the LRMTS is completed, he added.
The official said that a lack of funds was another reason the underpass had been put on hold.

It is copied from the same link

@Ali_Syed

3. The doctors strike which persisted for about 45 days, and the Punjab government showed indifference to it, resulting in deaths of scores of people

Doctor’s strike was the inhuman thing i have ever seen, where even have died because doctors were on strike and was not ready to take care of them… anyway, Doctors/health issue was under federal control prior to the 18th Amendment, there is little what any provincial govt can do about it and by the time strike was going on, 18th amendment was there but the Ministry was not transferred to the Province… for some procedural or technical reason federal govt transferred this and other ministries to the provinces after budget 2011.. i don’t know yet that if the transfer is complete, i however did read in the newspaper that that SS wrote reminder letter to the PM to complete the transfer.
Anyway the strike was not only in Punjab, it was in Sindh and Balochistan as well… you google the links for that

But i would say that being in the career doctors should not come to the point where they refuse to see/treat a patient and let him die.. doctors demand (i guess) have been met but those who died because doctors didn’t treat won’t come back

@Ali_Syed

4. The situation of medicines in Punjab hospitals, Ban on purchase by Punjab government Hospitals without vital medicines

I guess it was more with the price-hike of the essential medicines… but i don’t know the details of it and what i knew is if govt have agreed to the higher rates then the prices of the medicines available would have sky-rocketed… but as i said, i don’t know the details

@Ali_Syed

5. Last and not least, lets see what happens with the yellow cab scheme (already proven to be a failure in the previous PMLN government). Jang Economic Session ‘New Yellow Cab Scheme can also be a failure’

Another blunder, or should i say mean to earn cheap publicity, they could have provided the people with easy loans for the value of these cabs… it would have been better but, as i said, blunder is blunder…