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PML-Q MPA advocates dividing Punjab into three parts
* Sher Ali ‘congratulates’ govt on budget under Musharraf’s NFC formula
* Says North Punjab being discriminated against
By Rana Kashif
LAHORE: A Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MPA on Saturday suggested to the House that the province be divided into three parts.
MPA Sher Ali Khan said the division of Punjab into three parts on administrative grounds could help end the politics of deprivation.
Musharraf’s NFC: While taking part in the debate on the provincial budget for 2009-10, Sher Ali said he congratulated the coalition government in Punjab on presenting the budget according to the National Finance Commission (NFC) formula of former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf. He said the law minister had also admitted that the budget was presented under the old NFC. Sher Ali said the allocation for education had been reduced from Rs 55 billion to Rs 45 billion, and the military schools were being handed over to the Daanish School System of the chief minister.
Discriminated: He said he could not understand why North Punjab was being discriminated against. He said MPAs from South Punjab were complaining that they were being neglected, without realising that many political heavyweights belonged to the southern belt. He said an equal number of tractors under the Green Tractor Scheme should be distributed at the union council level. He said the Agriculture Department prohibited the farmers from sowing a wheat seed ‘Inqilab’, but the government had been selling that seed to the farmers. He said as a result of this, the produce of farmers of North Punjab wasnot purchased by the department.
Sher Ali said the sasti roti scheme was urban-based, and the areas that desperately needed sasti roti had been ignored.
Daily Times: Sunday ,June 21,2009
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