Senior Minister of Sindh and Provincial Minister for Transport, Mass Transit, Excise, Taxation, and Narcotics Control, Sharjeel Inam Memon, has announced the launch of new transport projects immediately after Eid, following the instructions of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, to bring good news to the people.
The second phase of the pink bus service for women will be initiated in Karachi and the People’s Bus Service will be launched in Mirpurkhas to provide safe, cost-effective, and state-of-the-art travel facilities to the people. According to the Minister, the Sindh government will initiate a free shuttle service to connect the Orange Line BRT and Red Line BRT that will commence after the Eid.
The political work has largely influenced the governance in the center as well as the provinces. Amid nose downed economy, skyrocketing inflation, and talks with the IMF for billions of dollars in loans, politically motivated towery projects are being inaugurated in Sindh, the KP, and Punjab to mark the pro-public legacies of the ruling parties.
The research shows that the circular debt and fiscal losses of over 200 State-Owned Entities (SEOs) are the only issues that used to eat bulk resources regularly and kneel the country’s economy to the ground. Yet, our leaders are recklessly investing bulk money in structuring more Public entities, mega projects, and mass transit system that neither survive nor can operate for a single day without subsidies from the government.
Doing business and running corporations do not come under the domain of the government, public leaders, and bureaucrats. The governments provide essential infrastructure, encourage businesses, and facilitate private investment in public projects to provide comfort to the public.
The government monitors and regulates the function of private entities and ensures timely and cost-effective service delivery to the public. Unfortunately, political race persuades ruling parties to increase their public rating through symbolic artificial growth which often does not improve the living standard of the masses but tags gigantic achievements to the leaders essential to thrive in their politics. The current day economy does not afford such politically motivated schemes which are least beneficial to the public and more poisonous for the country.
Therefore the self-claimed public leaders must review their legacies of free electricity, free atta, free travel, and free care, which are neither free nor a charity from any leader or the government but always paid from the national exchequer and taken back from the public through taxes, tariffs and tolls. It is a bitter reality that can’t be denied.
