Naya Pakistan: News and Developments

[VCheng]

Next up: increases in the price of petrol, diesel and electricity. How much will depend on on the price rise in international markets and the weakness of the PKR. The increases are likely to be sharp.

 

[war&peace]

Ignore kar.

Hormonal issues hai shayad muhtaram ko

ap sa behtar kon jan sakta ha makhlooqat ma sa

 

[Shane]

@war&peace @Zibago @BHarwana @Shane @Ali Tariq @django @Moonlight @Farah Sohail

The PTI Government should also look into lowest income housing projects like KHUDA KI BASTI of Hyderabad.

That model can be upgraded with experience gained from practical and every day real life examples of those who designed and built it and those who live there. I read a column about the HDA bureaucrat who masterminded the project. He should be engaged if he is still around.

 

[El Sidd]

ap sa behtar kon jan sakta ha makhlooqat ma sa

Arent you a cutie

The PTI Government should also look into lowest income housing projects like KHUDA KI BASTI of Hyderabad.

Yeah that was a Nice scam.

 

[django]

@war&peace @Zibago @BHarwana @Shane @Ali Tariq @django @Moonlight @Farah Sohail

Thousands upon thousands of jobs....Naya Pakistan.Kudos bhai

 

[Shane]

Yeah that was a Nice scam.

How is it a scam?
I remember reading about it many many years ago and was surprised to find out that it actually worked very well from the start and while the designer and concept architect was still on his seat, the bureaucrat Mr. Siddiqui, I think he was chairman HDA.

It may definitely have its flaws but its the only Pioneering working model of basic, Bottom up, incremental development housing scheme for the poorest of the poor urban homeless. Here is some detail:

Housing Development Scheme, Khuda Ki Basti, Pakistan
Cécile LACHERET

07 / 1994

Khuda Ki Basti (KKB), meaning God’s Colony, represents a pioneering attempt on the part of Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA)to solve the housing problems of the lowest stratum of the urban poor. This scheme has been developed on a site near the Hyderabad Toll Plaza, in Kotri, which stretches over 5 500 acres with a lay out for 70 000 plots. Its objective is to help the shelterless acquire legal titles to residential lots, with a minimum affordable down payment, where the families can immediately construct their houses.

Target group identification and plot allotment consists of four steps : 1/ Identification of families earning about $ 50 per month and in urgent need of housing. 2/ Selection of applicants who are lodged in two types of reception areas : an open land where the family can install a make-shift house or two rooms ’pucca’ (concrete)house with latrine and in-house water tap ; the families are kept in the reception area for a minimum period of one week. 3/ Assessment of eligibility by the HDA. 4/ The eligible families are allotted a regular plot of 80 square yards.

The basic shelter package comprises three main components : 1/ The plot, with the availability of potable water at public transport and a W.C. with sanitary latrine. 2/ Compulsory savings in the form of a regular monthly instalment, preferably through a bank account operated jointly by designated representatives of residents and sponsors of the scheme. 3/ A bulk contribution by the residents for the desired level and type of services as per preference or priority assigned by them.

The concept of financial affordability is characterized by two main features : a minimum down payment fixed at $ 50 to cover the basic shelter package cost and regular monthly instalments of $ 2.50 to $ 5.00, based on affordability of the beneficiaries, towards the total cost of the plot amounting to $ 450.
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The approach is also based on the development of self employment and income generation. A Family Enterprises Scheme has been launched. HDA has obtained a bulk loan of $ 0.25 million from the House Building Finance Corporation for improving existing house structures as well as for income-generating schemes. The loans are provided through the block organization which disburses the loans after ascertaining the needs and repayment capacity of the individual applicant. The recovery percentage is over 95 %.

@Retired Troll and @PakSword @Farah Sohail @Realistic Change @BHarwana @Zibago @Arsalan

Most importantly:

The KKB scheme completed three years of its existence on 2nd November 1989. 3 826 plots were allotted for the KKB, out of which 2 094 have already been constructed. Under the Family Enterprises Scheme, which started in February 1989, a sum of $ 8 385 had been advanced in loans ranging between $ 55 to $ 940. This has generated employment for 117 persons (including 48 women). The rate of recovery of these loans has been over 90 %. These achievements should be viewed in contrast to the rest of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal scheme, in which, by March 1988, almost 11 600 plots had been provided by the public sector and 1 000 acres of land given to the cooperative societies : but neither construction on allotted plots nor any development scheme by cooperative societies had been initiated.

Maximum encouragement is provided to the residents to provide services and utilities for their homes on a do-it-yourself basis, particularly for sanitation, garbage disposal, electricity and even road-building. However, so far, a network of 49 500 feet of water supply lines, 18 850 feet sewerage lines and 13 500 of electricity lines have been provided in the scheme.

Regarding educational facilities, 23 schools of various levels are already functioning in KKB with a total enrollment of 872 students and 43 teachers. Health services are being provided in the area by 5 private doctors, 5 para-professionals, 2 clinics, 3 mobile clinics and an ambulance. Small-scale enterprises provide transport between KKB and Hyderabad besides government buses [...].

[...]According to the HDA, the entire scheme is self-financed.

Key words
housing financingcreditsavingsrole of the Statecommunity organizationemployment

PakistanHyderhabad


Notes
This case study is an edited version of the text which appeared in : Guidelines on Community-Based Housing Finance and Innovation Credit Systems for Low-Income Households, Bangkok, ESCAP, 1990. Translated into French, following card.

Source
Report

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[Shane]

PMLN is quite used to lying and throwing sand in the eyes of the people of Pakistan.

The latest speech of Money Laundering Expert Opposition Leader, Shahbaz Sharif is a great example of shamelessly blaming the new government for making difficult decisions when it is because of the unprecedented loot and plunder, commission making heist that all but destroyed Pakistan's economy by his own PMLN GOVERNMENT.

Ahsan Iqbal Socrates and his corrupt commission making leadership of PMLN stands exposed in a Twitter spat with Farrukh Saleem:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1042757971900542977

https://twitter.com/x/status/1042773777006952449

Hmmm Ahsan Iqbal Socrates, roughly just $ 0.4 million per MW commission is very patriotic of your lot indeed compared to 3 times the price of your metros commission.

 

[Ali Tariq]

Qatar offers to provide employment to 1 lac Pakistanis

ایکسپریس نیوزکے مطابق اقوام متحدہ کے جنرل اسمبلی اجلاس میں شرکت کے لیے نیویارک میں موجود وزیرخارجہ شاہ محمود قریشی کی قطری ہم منصب محمد بن عبدالرحمن سے ملاقات ہوئی جس میں دونوں ممالک کے درمیان دوطرفہ تعلقات اور تعاون کو فروغ دینے اتفاق کیا گیا۔

وزیر خارجہ شاہ محمود قریشی اور قطری ہم منصب کے درمیان ملاقات میں خارجہ امور پر گفتگو ہوئی اور اس دوران قطری وزیر خارجہ نے ایک لاکھ ہنرمند پاکستانیوں کو ملازمتیں دینے کی پیشکش بھی کی۔

https://www.express.pk/story/1353049/10/

 

[Shane]

Qatar offers to provide employment to 1 lac Pakistanis

ایکسپریس نیوزکے مطابق اقوام متحدہ کے جنرل اسمبلی اجلاس میں شرکت کے لیے نیویارک میں موجود وزیرخارجہ شاہ محمود قریشی کی قطری ہم منصب محمد بن عبدالرحمن سے ملاقات ہوئی جس میں دونوں ممالک کے درمیان دوطرفہ تعلقات اور تعاون کو فروغ دینے اتفاق کیا گیا۔

وزیر خارجہ شاہ محمود قریشی اور قطری ہم منصب کے درمیان ملاقات میں خارجہ امور پر گفتگو ہوئی اور اس دوران قطری وزیر خارجہ نے ایک لاکھ ہنرمند پاکستانیوں کو ملازمتیں دینے کی پیشکش بھی کی۔

https://www.express.pk/story/1353049/10/

The offer needs careful and detailed analysis, pros and cons and how the rest of the Middle East Arabs will take it. Saudis are coming in with $10 billion initial investment.

Repeating the mistakes of Sharifs in choosing Qatar over Saudi-UAE alliance or Alienating one for the other will only result in deterioration of relations with the close friends.

 

[El Sidd]

The offer needs careful and detailed analysis, pros and cons and how the rest of the Middle East Arabs will take it. Saudis are coming in with $10 billion initial investment.

Repeating the mistakes of Sharifs in choosing Qatar over Saudi-UAE alliance or Alienating one for the other will only result in deterioration of relations with the close friends.

Me cheekh raha tha ye Qatar Airlines se jaraha ha.

Koi sunta hi nahi

Qatar is an Island.

Government serious nahi hai.

 

[Shane]

Government serious nahi hai.

Ya phir best bargain maen lagi hui haay...
Work force jobs for more labour force tu Saudis aur UAE bhee offer kar saktay thay like India asked...but they stopped short.

It all needs careful handling.

 

[El Sidd]

Ya phir best bargain maen lagi hui haay...
Work force jobs for more labour force tu Saudis aur UAE bhee offer kar saktay thay like India asked...but they stopped short.

It all needs careful handling.

Careful handling from a government which cannot sort senate out?

Kiya me hi Mila hon ganday jokes sunane kay.

#HaarMaanLo

 

[Shane]

Careful handling from a government which cannot sort senate out?

Kiya me hi Mila hon ganday jokes sunane kay.

#HaarMaanLo

Bhai maen tu kehta hon utar phainko inn na ahlon ko aur experienced lot ko wapas laay aao...

Economic terrorists aur goons kyun missing persons nahee bantay iss mulk maen?

 

[El Sidd]

Bhai maen tu kehta hon utar phainko inn na ahlon ko aur experienced lot ko wapas laay aao...

Economic terrorists aur goons kyun missing persons nahee bantay iss mulk maen?

Chalen koshish karen. Dil nahi haarte.

Ek baat dassen. Pmln kehti thi kay inko kaam karne nahi dia jaraha. Pti kab kahegi

 

[Shane]

Chalen koshish karen. Dil nahi haarte.

Ek baat dassen. Pmln kehti thi kay inko kaam karne nahi dia jaraha. Pti kab kahegi

Kiya me hi Mila hon ganday jokes sunane kay leye?