Observer Report
Karachi
Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing and Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah while commenting on the annual budget 2020-21 presented in the National Assembly said that the budget was prepared by failed economic team of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government on behest of International Monetary Fund.
In a statement on Saturday, he said that no relief was given to common man
in the budget. He said that a lot of relief and encouragement had been given to all the businessmen who were associated with the construction business, but nothing had been offered to the labourers who were involved in the work of construction.
Government should have taken care of the workers who were associated with the construction work and who belonged to the poor class, and not the businessmen who were already earning a lot of money, he added.
Nasir Shah questioned what had been reserved in the budget to deal with Covid-19, which could make a difference or make an impact. He said that the most urgent need at this time was to take maximum steps in the budget to deal with the coronavirus situation.
He said that because the federal government was not serious about the coronavirus pandemic before, and was not serious even now, that was why it did not take any significant steps in this regard in the budget as well. He further said that at present our farmer was watching his ripe crops being destroyed by locusts all over the country, adding that, the farmers had been disappointed with the federal government.
He said that the federal government had promised in a meeting on March 6 that by April, air spraying would be carried out in all parts of the country where locusts were destroying the crops, but so far nothing had been done.
He said that if air spraying had been done on time, many crops could have been saved. The provincial minister said that today our cultivator and farmer was very upset to see his crops being destroyed due to the incompetence of this government. He said that a large part of the economy of our country was based on agriculture, but this failed federal government was not paying due attention to the agriculture.
He said that just as the people belonging to all walks of life were disturbed by the failed policies of the federal government, so too the people belonging to the agriculture sector were frustrated by its failed policies. Nasir Shah said that if they did not consider the three months of Covid 19, the last year was the year of lowest recovery in the history of Pakistan. He said that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had already rejected the budget.
