Performance of Punjab Government

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Performance of Punjab Government

@hanibal

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.
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Its mentioned in the same article that the experts of LMTS had asked Shahbaz Sharif to put the project on hold, but he went ahead with wasting public exchequer as usual. After wasting the money he has put the project on hold now.

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

We should consider the doctors as humans as well, after studying hard for so many years and working ridiculous hours they were being paid less than even constables in Punjab Police. The doctors were asking the government to revise their salaries for the past three years, but every time the government would make committees and subcommittees and hollow promises for in creasing their salaries. Even the previous strike started from token strikes, nothing happened, then they started the full strike still nolthing happened. It was like there was no government at all, anyways in the end the same Punjab Government increased their salaries and I remember Shahbaz Sharif exclaiming in the end that he was being misled by the Health Secretary!

I remember Shabaz Sharif starting a bus company as well, Punjab government based company, I wonder what has happened to that project.