Re: Unplugged With Guppies — Shamraz Khan
- The average growth rate in the country for last four years has been less the 2.5%..
- Inflation has been in double digits during this tenure..
- The perception of corruption is at the highest level.
- PIA has lost more than 100 billion rupees this year. Railway has lost more than 25 billion, power sector has a deficit of more than 400 billion. It seems there is no governance-managemnt in the sectors controlled by Federal government.
- Power crisis is unprecedented in the country.
- Industrialization-investment is at the lowest level in the history of the country.
All this is happening when the whole region with similar economies is booming with growth rates between 5-10% during the same period.
PTI has given short term as well as longterm strategies to overcome power crisis in particular and economy in general. The short term strategy in power sector is the right prioritization of resources, better management in distribution-generation. The long term strategy includes finding the right mix of energy instead of coming up with genius ideas like rental power plants. The main strategy to fix the economy is to curb the corruption and induct better qualified people to manage the state institutions instead of uneducated corrupt people who were given the most sensitive posts in the institutions during the present regime.
PTI has qualified honest people like Asad Umar, Jhangir Tareen and many others in their team. They have the credibility among the investor community of being clean-qualified people who will work for the betterment of economy. If only PTI led government changes the perception of our county.. it will make a huge difference to overturn the troubled economy.