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why are these people wasting money on this. They should have distributed it among poor people. Is this the change?

Instead they could have invested in the coal that is present in Punjab for gasification and supply gas to the province from this resource, I have heard that there are two or three places where they have found great coal and other mineral resources I think they should act quickly and invest more into it with private sector too....

Turning coal into Gas---- you know how in-efficient this process is? And can provincial government start this?
 
Laptop Corruption scam !!

Rs 1.70 billion laptop scandal in Punjab

By Adnan Adil

Lahore: By procuring 110,000 laptops with inferior and outdated processors through a local company instead of directly from the manufacturing company at a much higher than normal price, the Punjab government incurred a loss of at least Rs 1.7 billion to the provincial kitty, Daily Times has learnt.

The Punjab government has bought Dell laptops with outdated Pentium-D processors for Rs 4 billion at a rate of Rs 37,000 per laptop. But the retail market value of this machine is not more than a maximum of Rs 25,000.

In the case of purchase in bulk, the machine’s price would not have exceeded more than Rs 20,000 per piece. Thus, the Punjab government has paid a whopping amount of Rs 1.70 billion in excess of what it should have spent to buy the lot.

Sources say the Punjab government favoured the supplier company by providing it the payment in advance for opening the Letter of Credit (LC). This method is called back-to-back LC. The supplier invested no money of its own for the purchase, the sources added.

Under the law, a copy of any government’s contract worth more than Rs 500 million needs to be sent to NAB, but, intriguingly, the Punjab government has not done so, insiders said.

In addition, the laptops distributed by the provincial government do not carry any guarantee, which is in contrast to the normal practice despite the fact all such machines sold by distributors in the market carry at least a one-year guarantee.

The laptops distributed among Punjab’s students are made of Dell, China, bearing model InspironN4050, but the specifications of the machine distributed by the Punjab government are different from the same model in the market. The Dell-InspironN4050 runs on i3 or i5 processors while the machine provided by the government runs on Pentium-D processor – a processor which is slightly advanced than Pentium-4 but less powerful than Dual Core. Other specifications are as following: (a) Pentium-D processor – a 2.1 GHz processor (b) RAM 2 GB, DDR3, and (c) hard disk 320 GB.

The laptops have Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. The BIOS of the laptops is customised for Linux system and does not support Microsoft Windows, which is widely used in Pakistan. To install Microsoft Windows, the BIOS of the laptops requires upgrading that costs Rs 4,000 per laptop. The Punjab Planning and Development (P&D) Department has bought the machines while the Higher Education Department is responsible for the distribution.

Sources say the laptops have not been purchased directly from the Dell company, which is a normal way of procuring machines in bulk. Instead, the machines were procured through a Pakistani company. When machines in bulk are purchased by large companies or governments from the manufacturers, they are available in less than half the retail price. In this case, the machine’s realistic price could not be more than Rs 20,000 in the wholesale agreement. The government asked the interested parties to submit a hefty amount of Rs 30 million as a surety amount, which crowded out other bidders because they could not submit this amount. Only one company remained in the field and thus enjoyed virtual monopoly to fix the price of the laptops.

The government opened a back-to-back LC to favour the supplier. It means the government provided the company money in advance for opening the LC. Thus, the supplying company invested not a penny to buy these machines from Dell, China. The Punjab government provided all the money, while the supplier reaped huge benefits.

The processor and the motherboard of the laptops are a redundant technology for the last five years. After the Pentium-D (a slightly modified version of Pentium-4) advanced processors of Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, i3, i5 and i7 were introduced in the market. No company now sells laptops of this P-4 technology. The supplier has made huge profits by using low-quality, redundant and cheap processors in the laptops. The laptop machines with much-advanced processors are available even in the retail market in the same price of Rs 37,000.
 
and corrupt ganjas claim they are facilitating youth.
 
when intentions are negative this is what happens, dengue brothers shud quit politics and run thier business, politics is not thier cup of tea:tdown:
 
I know that the political system in Pakistan is a joke, but why is no one asking the question of why these people are spending state funds on their party campaign?


No where in the world, where democracy works, is a party allowed to use state funds for their party.
So why are these clown brothers getting away with this?
PTI needs to exploit this angle and make people aware that is would be considered criminal in any other country.
 
Argh! you beat to that: ;) but let me add more to the fun.

We all know why pmln distributing laptops, pichle 25 years mai pmln ne kabhi youth ko mooo nhi lagaya tha but thanks to 30 October, youth ki value bher gyi.

One girl in video endorsed my point, she says..''Ham ne to nhi maange the laptops, per free mai mil rhe hain to lene mai kya harj hai.?''

Koi Shahabaz (Show-baz) ko btaye... pichle 4 saal se log Bijli k lye roads pe protest ker rhe hain..laptops k lye nhi..!!!....''Awaam ko Bijli chahye, laptops nhi...!!!''

I am sure there are many other 'free' things that are on offer.....kia sab kuch le legi???
 
Khurram Dastagir of PML-N Gussa kar gaye hain, per Gussa mai Pmln ki Laptop policy keh daali...!!!

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This tweet of Khurram Dastgir clearly saying that "if you are taking Laptop from Shahbaz Sharif and going to Vote For Imran Khan, It means you are "Bay Asool". These laptops were given to you to buy your votes...!!!
 
WHAT A B***** PEOPLE OF THIS NATION!!!

THIS LAPTOP Scheme is ALREADY FAKE AND BS by CM... BUTTTTT

These people who did protest against the CM were MORE IDIOT then CM because before this scheme kya ye MAR GAYE THAY LAPTOP kay bagair ???? pehlay bhi tu laptop nahe tha inkay paas.... kya ye loog mar gaye thay ??? WT**** THIS NATION.... KOOM HE JAHIL hey jo jitna bara parha likha hey woh UTHNA BARA JAHIL Hey
 
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