Make petrol cheaper instead of thieves and door openers

 

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced that relief will be given up to 50 rupees in petrol prices for the low income section of the country. The Prime Minister said in a review meeting in Lahore that apart from motorcycles and rickshaws, petrol subsidy will be given to consumers with small vehicles up to 800 cc. The Prime Minister emphasized on setting up the practical program of this subsidy as soon as possible. He said that rickshaws, motorcycles and small vehicles are rides of low income people. Similarly, petroleum subsidy will reach the poor people directly. After the announcement of giving subsidy to the poor people, the Prime Minister directly attacked the former prime minister Imran Khan.

Although the meeting was regarding the petroleum relief package for poor and low income consumers, but in this meeting also he adopted the same method which the former prime minister had adopted for four years. Now the PDM government is about 11 months too, they should now talk about their own works instead of talking about the achievements of the previous government. In the meeting held by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, his economic tigers Ishaq Dar, Mossadegh Malik, Finance Secretary, his advisers Ahmed Cheema, Tariq Bajwa and others participated. So much information has been conveyed to the public but it has not been told what is the maximum income limit for low income earners according to the government. How much income do they consider low income?

These experts who measure people's poverty by the size of the car and the bike, only tell how much they will spend on the project. Do they have data on how many people in the country use motorcycles and how many use vehicles up to 800 cc? Then what method will be adopted to deliver the subsidy to these people? The difficulty is that our ruling class finds a loophole in every work, but first the loophole is made and then the plan is made. Just like the makers of the Benazir Income Support Program had made a thief door before implementing it, they used to steal the identity cards of their farmers and send the money of the support program to them and receive it themselves. Thousands of government officials are accused of embezzling Benazir Income. More or less 32% of the amount is wasted.

Now if a card is issued for petrol subsidy, what is the guarantee that all the cards will get to the eligible motorcyclists and only the eligible will reach by taking small vehicles. The big officers and the ruling class will give cars to their employees and fill them with cheap petrol and steal this subsidy as well. Instead of spending on creating a mechanism and adopting different methods to provide this subsidy, is there anything wrong if petrol itself is made cheaper?

These rulers also buy official petrol in their big vehicles and get other facilities under various pretexts. Instead of trying to devise a new system of looting in the name of the people, have the courage to announce a subsidy of Rs 100 per liter on petrol. What is the guarantee that rickshaw pullers who are given cheap petrol will charge less fare from their rides? Our rulers do not provide good transport to facilitate the people, forcing them to push in rickshaws and wagons and a large number of wagons also belong to the police and other government officials or their relatives and those who do not what relief will the people get if the share has to be distributed to all these people? So the rulers should take real relief measures instead of making announcements that gain fame and sympathy. This question is in its place that the rides of all the rulers who are the people's people are luxurious and very bad, while they have automatically set the standard of small car, motorcycle and rickshaw for the vehicles of the people and people with low income. Here people cannot travel by themselves in public rides, give people such a transport system that when they want to travel by themselves, they can travel between people. Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Bilawal, Asif Zardari, intellectuals of their parties tell the nation about America, Europe and the whole world that this is happening there, why don't they tell that their rulers live among the people. They use ordinary vehicles, they travel on ordinary projects.