سنڌي ساٿي!
هن وقت جڏهن سموريون ٻوليون ۽ قومون پنهنجي ٻوليءَ جي بچاءَ ۽ ان کي دنيا ۾
ڦهلائڻ لاءِ وڏا وڏا قدم کڻي رهيون آهن ۽ انهن جون حڪومتون ان سلسلي ۾ وڏا وڏا
پروگرام ٺاهي رهيون آهن اتي اسان جي سنڌ حڪومت سنڌي ڪپيوٽنگ لاءِ ڇا ڪري
رهي آهي ؟ ان ڳالهه کي اگر وائکو ڪندا سين ته شرم وري به اسان کي ئي ايندو. سائين ماجد ڀرڳڙيءِ جيڪا جدوجهد سنڌ حڪومت جي بيوروڪريسيءَ کي سنڌي ٻولي ڊجيٽلائيز ڪرڻلاءِ رڳو آماده ڪرڻ لاءِ ڪئي آهي اوتري اگر ڪنهن ويسٽرن جو ڄاڻو ڪري ها ته هوند ان لاءِ سهولتن جا انيڪ دروازا کوليا وڃن ها ... پر اسان جي سنڌ حڪومت ( جيڪا سچ ته سنڌي وزيراعلا هوندي به اسان سنڌين جي آهي ئي ڪونه ) جي ڪن تي جونءَ به ڪونه چري سگهي آهي.
اها صورتحال ڏسندي اسان ڪجھ دوست ڊجيٽل سنڌ گروپ ان سپني سان شروع ڪري رهيا آهيون، ته اسان اهو سڀ ڪجهه اوهان لاءِ پيش ڪيون جنهن جي اوهان کي سنڌي ڪپيوٽنگ لاءِ ضرورت پوي... ان سلسلي ۾ اسان اهي سمورا سافٽ ويئر ۽ پروگرام سنڌويب جي ويب سائيٽ تي اپ لوڊ ڪيا آهن، جن جي ڪڏهن به اوهان کي گھرج پئجي سگھي ٿي.
سنڌويب ٽيم
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دوستو ! هن بلاگ تي سنڌيءَ جي سهولت ايتري ڪونه آهي جو اسان سڌو سنئون سنڌيءَ ۾ لکي سگھون، ان ڪري اوهان کي گذارش آهي ته اڳ ۾ مائڪروسافٽ ورڊ ۾ لکي ان کي هتي پيسٽ ڪريو.
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Nothing to show for Rs72bn Sindh investment
By Sabihuddin Ghausi
MORE than Rs72 billion has been invested in the development of Sindh from the provincial budget over the last five years (2002-03 to 2006-07) out of about Rs95 billion sanctioned and about Rs90.36 billion released funds.
Financial achievements of development funds look pretty impressive, but many questions arise when it comes to locating the real worth of physical assets, and trying to find any improvement in physical and social infrastructure facilities.
Critics says that there is so much of mismatch between physical and financial targets with cost over runs on account of faulty planning, designing and implementation of projects. No project evaluation has been undertaken over the past several years.
While such issues are being raised over the last several years, the provincial government has not drawn up any annual report which should give full account of development status, non-development current expenditure, management issues, administrative matters and complete description of the assets� inventory.
From 1972 to mid 80�s, the Sindh government every year published Economic Notes, a document with the budget that gave full account of assets� inventory, grade wise staff description and even the number of vehicles available with the departments. It provided information of the improvement in facility or increase in assets after the investment of the development funds. Such information is not being made available to people of Sindh now.
In the absence such reports, the government�s claim of achievements in actual development and planning in the province is not substantiated. During last three consecutive years, monsoons have brought miseries to people in Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities of the province because the drainage system has completely collapsed. Cities like Karachi and Hyderabad are still getting turbid and contaminated water. Several cases of death have been reported after the consumption of contaminated water in Sindh. Water supply is worse in rural areas. Roads are being constructed, flyovers and bridges being built, under passes being laid in Karachi, but the hour-long traffic jams are being experienced by people every day. After Balochistan, Sindh has the lowest rate of children�s, particularly girls�, admissions to primary schools.
�Physical infrastructures in industrial areas and in markets have completely collapsed,�� complained Engineer A. Jabbar, a former vice-president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry. According to him, the breakdown in infrastructure had contributed a lot in pushing up production cost in industry and the cost of doing business.
He laments that neither the federal nor the provincial governments has paid any attention to the problems of trade and industry. Leaders of trade and industry express their ignorance on the resources given to improving facilities in their areas and what has been its outcome. After recent rains in Karachi, many markets in Jodia Bazaar, Saddar, Clifton, M.A. Jinnah Road, Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, Federal B Area, Landhi and Malir were literally inaccessible for buyers. Shopkeepers suffered because there were poor drainage facilities.
Section 54 of the Sindh Rules of Business 1986 clearly instructs the secretary of every administrative department to prepare a Year Book --a permanent document-- at the beginning of every year. This document should detail all its activities, achievements and progress and achievement of development targets in the outgoing fiscal year and also projections for the current year. Such a document can serve as a permanent reference material for the government and general public.
For last several years, hardly any administrative department has drawn up such a report. �No one in the government and in provincial assembly ever raised the issue of compliance of the Section 54 of the Sindh Rules of Business 1986��, an official disclosed.
Retired and serving officials speak of a breakdown of governance in Sindh on two counts that have emerged as a big challenge to the development of the province. The first is the devolution process that has brought into place a whole new army of district political leaders and district bureaucracy. The second factor is a regional divide specific to Sindh only which has been acknowledged by the World Bank in its report on the Sindh Economy.
�Development budgets of district specific schemes have now swelled into millions of rupees from hardly a few thousands of rupees five years ago��, a senior engineer in the government said. The District Coordination Officers (DCOs) and Executive District Officers (EDOs) of the administrative departments in districts now do not respond quickly to the queries of the secretaries of the administrative departments. This is hampering planning, implementation of development schemes, supervision, and monitoring.
A World Bank team in December 2004 found divergence and inequality within Sindh province that was a potential threat to its development. It noted significant difference in socio-economic indicators of Karachi and rest of urban Sindh and that of rural Sindh. �Poor governance�� was mentioned as one of the formidable developmental challenge. Corruption and law and order were derivatives of weak governance that are plaguing the administration and are a hurdle in development.
An uncomfortable coalition government, in which the majority partner threatened several times to quit in last five years, is another factor for creating a stalemate in development and divided a demoralised establishment.
No wonder then at the end of June this year, the throw forward of Sindh�s development schemes have gone beyond Rs108 billion. Delay in the implementation of schemes mainly because of lack of direction and priorities escalate the run-over cost of un-finished schemes.
Another example of government failing to act with a consensus is recourse to foreign loans. The foreign loans liability of Sindh government increased to Rs71 billion by the end of last fiscal year and servicing its principal amount and interest is becoming a burden on the budget. Within the government, a section wants to give up foreign lending but reports suggest that negotiations for more than one billion dollars (over Rs60 billion) loans is under way. How much will be the debt-servicing cost in coming years and how it was going to impact the budget is anybody�s guess.
�For the last over 12 years not even a stone has been put to construct Khairpur-Larkana bridge��, complained Nisar Khuhro, leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly. Mr Khuhro was planning and development minister in PPP government and had visualised the Khairpur-Larkana bridge in 1995. Its foundation stone was laid down recently by President Musharraf, but no work has started as yet.
�I had asked the government on the floor of assembly about two years back to issue annual reports of the departments�� Mr Khuhro, informed Dawn. But he had no answer when asked if this provision of Rules of Business was complied with when his party ruled the province from 1994 to 1996 and earlier from 1988 to 1990.
Development budget of Sindh was only Rs1.16 billion in 1981-82 which increased to three-times to Rs3.30 billion in 1989-90 and then to Rs4 billion in 1999-2000 and is now Rs35 billion. But development remains a game of politicians, bureaucrats and technocrats. Bridges are collapsing, roads are caving in, schools and dispensaries are without teachers and doctors. And the money, well spent or otherwise, on development is projected as an achievement.
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