South Punjab Secretariat, ray of hope for neglected region

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South Punjab Secretariat, ray of hope for neglected region



MULTAN, Sep 20 (APP):Culturally rich region, south Punjab always remained ignored in the past regarding provision of civic facilities and necessary infrastructure especially quality education, better healthcare, agriculture, sewerage and some other basic requirements of daily use.

The region comprises three divisions, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur, with a population of almost 40 million. Due to backwardness, a sense of deprivation is being observed among local people.
Local people always registered complaints of complete neglect and this situation led them to make demands for separate provinces so that their issues should be resolved locally.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, in its manifesto during Election 2018 promised to create a new province to facilitate local people. Although, PTI’s government lacked a required majority in assembly for creation of South Punjab province. However, it took practical steps and announced the establishment of the South Punjab Secretariat.

Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Usman Buzdar, during his recent visit announced 500 Kanals South Punjab Secretariat at Mattital road Multan. Similarly, another building of the South Punjab Secretariat will be constructed in Bahawalpur. Eight departments including Law, Home Department, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Health, Police, Forest- Fisheries and Wildlife, and Agriculture will be set up in Multan.

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[Saithan]

Good news indeed. It is difficult to comprehend that a country with Pakistan's population hasn't given regional/provincial powers to develop their areas.

Or were they stripped of said powers ?

 

[Saiyan0321]

Good news indeed. It is difficult to comprehend that a country with Pakistan's population hasn't given regional/provincial powers to develop their areas.

Or were they stripped of said powers ?

since 18th amendment a province has vast and vast powers to bring developments to their region. The 18th amendment in the Constitution came in 2010. The constitution of 1973 ( the previous Constitutions were extremely Central like the 1956 Constitution and the 1962 constitution was Ayub Central ), did provide for a federal structure where provinces were given some autonomy however since 1973-2010, the region was home to two martial laws and the political parties were constantly fighting and breaking each others government through presidential emergency proclamation and while the provinces did have some measures of power, however the huge chunk was with the central government especially revenue. This creates regions which saw mass development where voters were more, how can i put it, less influences by landlords and the regions were you only needed the landlord to be in your party to win i.e. South Punjab, Northern Sindh, Baluchistan, Regions of KPK, FATA saw zero development since the funds were funneled to the Land lord who spent it on their own benefits. So we had this problem when the Central had more powers but with 18th amendment the powers were vastly given to the provinces including the finances so the provinces got vast resources.

The empowered provinces did the exact same thing ofcourse. They developed areas where voters would scrutinized more and the landlords always win no matter who is in power however there was a positive that some areas within the province that were previously ignored by the federal for being too small or just not worth it, got attention in the province because the Federal looked at things from a 200 million population perspective when developing but the province will look at it from a 100 million perspective and the Federal would look at Lahore but also Islamabad, Quetta, Karachi, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad, Parachinar however the Province will look at its important areas like Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Nankana, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Gujrat, Sheikhupura etc. Sheikhupura is a great example as before 2010, it was basically a better village, but now its pretty developed. Nankana is another example and Gujrat are great examples of regions that saw development due to autonomy of provinces.

The most apt example is KPK which saw development through accurate policies by PTI government in KPK and Punjab as well which saw development under N in 2013-2018 however the problem rose the same as it had risen with provinces. As i mentioned above that resource allocation for 60 years prompted provinces to demand for autonomy from the central government. The same problem rose here that resource allocation is creating a demand for a new province and while Multan did see development due to it being an Urban city ( as i mentioned above resources to areas where landlords are weaker), other regions of the South did not and the South movement has been going on for a long time. Infact i would say since the time when Sindh and Punjab were annexed by the british. Multan always had its own history and it and its adjoining areas were always separate from the Lahore areas. South Punjab isnt the only region. Many regions where Resource allocation is a problem are asking for separate province like South Sindh, Hazara Division of KPK, Northern Baluchistan (Quetta to be included with them. All want Quetta).


so to your question. Yes because rulers wanted Central to have as much power and benefits as possible.

and They were not stripped because they were never given as such save the Princely states. They had autonomy

 

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