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Opinion Khadim-e-Ala
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Capital suggestion
Intention, capacity and delivery. He wanted to give 300,000 really deserving, low-income passengers a more respectable, a more efficient and a cheaper way to commute between Gajju Matta and Shahdara. He gave them the Lahore Metro Bus; 27 kilometres in one hour, 29 bus stations, an Intelligent Transportation System and e-ticketing. Yes, the Khadim-e-Ala should have been able to utilise the $1 billion soft loan from the ADB and built something more elaborate, more efficient and completely underground. He did not and that is a capacity issue. His intention was to serve the needy. He delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. His intention was to encourage Pakistani talent; the Khadim-e-Alas Rs4 billion free laptops scheme distributing 110,000 laptops to the brightest of the bright at Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, DG Khan Medical College, 106 position holders of the Bahawalpur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education plus a hundred thousand other Pakistanis. Yes, at the current rate of progress, it will take the government of Punjab another 28 years to provide all children with their constitutional right to education (that means by the year 2041). Yes, the government of Punjab will miserably fail to meet the MDGs. Yes, there could have been a hundred more useful uses of Rs4 billion and that is a capacity issue. The fact remains that Rs4 billion was spent in Pakistan on Pakistanis. His intention was to encourage Pakistani talent. He delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. His intention was to empower the poorest of the poor; the Khadim-e-Alas Rs5 billion Daanish Schools. Here are the four districts of Punjab with the highest incidence of poverty: Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh, DG Khan and Bahawalpur. Theres a school up and running in Hasilpur (District Bahawalpur), Chistian (District Bahawalpur) and Rahim Yar Khan. There shall soon be schools up and running in Harnoli, Jand, DG Khan and Fazilpur (District Rajanpur). It is true that 21,045 of our public schools have no building or one in a dangerous condition. Yes, he could have spent Rs5 billion in giving schools with no building a building. It is true that 61 percent of our schools have no electricity, 38 percent have no drinking water and 35 percent have no toilet facility.
Yes, there could have been more efficient uses of the Rs5 billion spent on Daanish Schools and that indeed is a capacity issue. The fact remains that Rs5 billion was not wired off to some offshore bank. It was spent in Pakistan on Pakistanis. His intention was to empower the poorest of the poor through education. He intended well and delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. The Khadim-e-Ala wanted to enhance tenure security and improve service delivery the Punjab governments $51 million Land Records Management and Information System (IDA commitment $45 million, Punjab $6 million). Imagine; 205,345 square kilometres online and an electronic Register Haqdaran-e-Zameen and Fard-e-Malkiat. The ground reality here is that the Khadim-e-Ala underestimated the power of the patwari the patwari is not going to let the system run (remember, even Osama had to pay up). There indeed is a capacity issue but the Khadim-e-Alas intention is beyond doubt.
Intention essentially is an aim that guides action. Capacity is both organisational and individual. The bottom line is that the Khadim-e-Ala has given, not taken. Delivery surely is something new on the ground; working and benefiting communities, for all of us to see and experience.
The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com; Tweets @Saleemfarrukh
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Capital suggestion
Intention, capacity and delivery. He wanted to give 300,000 really deserving, low-income passengers a more respectable, a more efficient and a cheaper way to commute between Gajju Matta and Shahdara. He gave them the Lahore Metro Bus; 27 kilometres in one hour, 29 bus stations, an Intelligent Transportation System and e-ticketing. Yes, the Khadim-e-Ala should have been able to utilise the $1 billion soft loan from the ADB and built something more elaborate, more efficient and completely underground. He did not and that is a capacity issue. His intention was to serve the needy. He delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. His intention was to encourage Pakistani talent; the Khadim-e-Alas Rs4 billion free laptops scheme distributing 110,000 laptops to the brightest of the bright at Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, DG Khan Medical College, 106 position holders of the Bahawalpur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education plus a hundred thousand other Pakistanis. Yes, at the current rate of progress, it will take the government of Punjab another 28 years to provide all children with their constitutional right to education (that means by the year 2041). Yes, the government of Punjab will miserably fail to meet the MDGs. Yes, there could have been a hundred more useful uses of Rs4 billion and that is a capacity issue. The fact remains that Rs4 billion was spent in Pakistan on Pakistanis. His intention was to encourage Pakistani talent. He delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. His intention was to empower the poorest of the poor; the Khadim-e-Alas Rs5 billion Daanish Schools. Here are the four districts of Punjab with the highest incidence of poverty: Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh, DG Khan and Bahawalpur. Theres a school up and running in Hasilpur (District Bahawalpur), Chistian (District Bahawalpur) and Rahim Yar Khan. There shall soon be schools up and running in Harnoli, Jand, DG Khan and Fazilpur (District Rajanpur). It is true that 21,045 of our public schools have no building or one in a dangerous condition. Yes, he could have spent Rs5 billion in giving schools with no building a building. It is true that 61 percent of our schools have no electricity, 38 percent have no drinking water and 35 percent have no toilet facility.
Yes, there could have been more efficient uses of the Rs5 billion spent on Daanish Schools and that indeed is a capacity issue. The fact remains that Rs5 billion was not wired off to some offshore bank. It was spent in Pakistan on Pakistanis. His intention was to empower the poorest of the poor through education. He intended well and delivered.
Intention, capacity and delivery. The Khadim-e-Ala wanted to enhance tenure security and improve service delivery the Punjab governments $51 million Land Records Management and Information System (IDA commitment $45 million, Punjab $6 million). Imagine; 205,345 square kilometres online and an electronic Register Haqdaran-e-Zameen and Fard-e-Malkiat. The ground reality here is that the Khadim-e-Ala underestimated the power of the patwari the patwari is not going to let the system run (remember, even Osama had to pay up). There indeed is a capacity issue but the Khadim-e-Alas intention is beyond doubt.
Intention essentially is an aim that guides action. Capacity is both organisational and individual. The bottom line is that the Khadim-e-Ala has given, not taken. Delivery surely is something new on the ground; working and benefiting communities, for all of us to see and experience.
The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com; Tweets @Saleemfarrukh
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