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After education
Yet, we are a nation of no changes. We are invariably hopeless, for we lack motivation. After having the degrees of master’s and MPhil, students are worried about a single job. We have jobs, but we lack the skills for the future. In universities, lecturers merely teach the course with multiple assignments unravelled for candidates. So far, no universities have planned something compatible to the candidate’s development and future.
The new generation and youth have no idea how they will find jobs. Higher education institutes are flooded with intelligent, talented motivated youths without jobs. Similarly, our authorities should seek something from them and begin to remodel our educational rules and bring new technical and beneficial control so that the candidates can perform as other students are performing from other countries.
There should be training faculties who have skills for the future, and they should train the candidates and give them critical mindsets so that they can develop the country and have a bright future. However, the country aiming for development should stabilize the education system because nothing would be changed without it
AMJID AFZAL
Quetta
IESCO mismanagement
The plan to build a separate feeder for the city to address the growing problems of power tripping and load in the town of Daultala failed due to incompetence and mismanagement of IESCO officials. On paper, the project was completed a year ago, but in reality, more than 20 percent of the work remains to be done yet. Ignored by IESCO Construction and IESCO Operations, this huge project has gone unnoticed by consumers instead of meeting its targets.
It should be noted that this project has a whopping cost of Rs. 27.5 million. Instead of building a city feeder, the area has been connected to three different feeders, adding to the power problems. Disregarding the rules and regulations of the project, ISCO officials have connected only the middle population of the city to the city feeder. While the northern population of the city connected to the Ahdi feeder and the southern population to the Dera Muslim feeder. Both the feeders are spread over a wide area, they have a lot of load and line faults due to which power outages have increased. The Chief Executive Officer of IESCO is requested to immediately take notice of this mismanagement and incompetence and rectify the situation.
QASIM ALI QASIM
Rawalpindi
Water scarcity
Water is essential for life. It is one of the valuable natural resources on earth and has no substitute. A few years ago, Pakistan was rich with fresh water resources, but unfortunately, at present it is facing severe water shortage. The atmospheric and climate changes, particularly an unnatural weather change pattern, shifting of monsoon and intensity of precipitation in the country are further aggravating the already served water accessibility situation.
The rapid growth of population in the country would need extra fresh water resources to meet the domestic, agriculture and industrial requirements. Karachi is a major urban and industrial city of Pakistan. It is one of the twenty mega cities of the world, having a population of about 22 million people and covers an area of more than 800 square kilometres. The city faces all kinds of environmental problems, including drinking water contamination and inadequate water supply.
Residential areas in Karachi are divided into planned and unplanned areas. More than 40% of city’s population resides in squatter settlements. Unplanned areas are those where there is lack of proper shelter, water supply and other utilities essential for survival. In these areas, many people are living without access to safe drinking water and this is the most important determinant to be focused. Karachi receives water from the Indus River, Hub dam and Dumlottee reservoirs through the municipal water pipeline.
However, supplies are inadequate to meet the increasing demand of water. Many areas in Karachi have been facing fresh water scarcity for a long time, particularly in slum localities. Water-related diseases are certainly much higher in the slum localities of Karachi where contaminated water is the cause. There is no state-run water system in Karachi’s rural areas like Ibrahim Haydari, Rehri Goth and Bhutta village.
AQSA AFROZ
Karachi
Save Sherani forest
The forest fire has been raging for nearly two weeks in the Sherani forest which is one of the largest fruit-producing (especially pine nut) areas in Balochistan located in the province’s Zhob Division which borders the KP Province. As of now, at least three people have lost their precious life while three others sustained serious burn injuries. Additionally, also at risk are hundreds of lives in communities living close to the forest. The same is true for the livestock and cattle heads.
The paramilitary personnel in the area have done their best to bring the fire under control, but their efforts haven’t brought any significant effect. The most unfortunate thing is that the provincial government has been in slumber and hasn’t done anything tangible to extinguish the fire. One can only hope that someone somewhere (perhaps the Federal Govt) will wake up and do something about it without wasting any further time.
MUHAMMAD SHOAIB
Quetta
