Re: United States of Punjab ?
They did not because with a strict anti corruption watchdog meant that MPs and MNA’s could not easily withdraw development funds without having feasibility reports approved. Such over cautious steps significantly reduced the chances of MNA’s abusing development funds for unnecessary and extremely expensive projects or even worst, ghost projects. Plus, couple of big development projects did not get Federal approval, for example the mass transit system.
In a corrupt country like ours, I rather have honest under utilisation of funds, than ever so quick and criminal evaporation of money. As you are probably aware that on paper, Sindh government spends all its development budget on province. They get noting left
But to PTI’s credit, they now have an LG system where 30% of development funds will be given to local bodies. Of course many MNA’s will struggle to share power and prestige with local representatives, but these are inevitable teething problems.
Not true, Metro bus is going ahead in KPK as far as I know. It will be functional after 2018, so no chance of either party benefiting it for political purposes. But it is true that KPK wanted its own mass transit system which was significantly lot cheaper and it would have been completed by by last years. But then PNLN had a brainwave and thought why should KPK miss out on the 50 billion red metro candy bus. So KPK’s own mass transit system proposal files are probably in the bin as we talk.