So giving laptops to the middle class and possibly working class justifies all the poor that have no food, no clean drinking water, no electricity, no funds for education for their children, no future for themselves and no hope?
What is more important to help the impoverished or to help the one's that can already sustain for themselves?
Okay, I don't deny the good that laptops have, and only few should be distributed (to the top 1-2 students of each college) but the rest of the money should go towards helping the impoverished. The long-term benefit and good of the country could then be seriously realized; as everyone would be getting a basic education and the basic necessities for life would be met. It is a much smarter idea to invest the money into every poor village and neighborhood across Pakistan, instead of giving it away to people living in perfectly fine conditions.
Chill.
Shahbaz is working on the poor side by side as well. He is making labour complexes, affordable local public transportation systems, increasing minimum wage, opened up cheap bread stores for the poor that cut the cost down from 4 rupees to 2 rupees in certain areas during high inflation period of time, new schools/universities in Multan and in Bahawalpur, Not to forget, he made new roads and flyovers. Heck Shahbaz invited Turkish, Iranian, Australians, Chinese mayors and investors to come over. Which ministers from Sindh, Balochistan, KPK do you see aggressively taking action to improve their province? If you look closely, terrorism has indeed been reduced. Punjab is the most improved areas in Pakistan that has reduced the number of landlords. Others need to work on that to truly improve the lives of the poor first.
You have to realize that there are some things you cannot do as a Punjab Chief Minister that only the federal government can do. For instance, if there is no water, then its the federal government's fault of not dealing with India or setting up or promoting national researching companies, with descent quality of equiptments. Already there is also no gas and electricity. How can your daily work and life work without that? Last i checked, 55% of electricity is stolen by Karachi.
Now as far as Laptops are concerned, they are great if you have limited amount of budget. Rather than creating buildings and wasting lands, that cost money, laptops will ensure almost free of expenditure to do business with the rest of the world.
This is good for the poor as well. Online schooling institutions can be opened.... If you have been to Pakistan, then you'll know that even a garbage picker has a cell phone with data....
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for youth to start up or finance their own business. A total amount of 2 billion rupees has been allocated by the Punjab Government which in collaboration with Akhuwat ensures transparency and merit. Empowering youth and providing them an opportunity to put their skills at use.
