Six universities and hundreds of colleges all over Balochistan are producing tens of thousands of graduates and post graduates annually with the hope to get suitable job on merit. But the Government is yet to come to the right expectations of the job seekers in general. On the contrary, the Government had failed to announce the second phase of recruitment after recruiting 5000 school teachers a few years ago. The Federal Government pledged to provide tens of thousands of jobs to the jobless Baloch youth and it failed to fulfil the promise to this date. However, there are few vacancies announced by different Federal Government Department for Balochistan. similarly, the Provincial Government has also plan to recruit thousands of young men in the Balochistan Constabulary and Balochistan Levies to make up the shortfall in the law enforcing agencies.
Balochistan received huge funds under the NFC Award and all the money are going waste as it were placed at the disposal of Ministers and without planning. The money is being spent on building small gutters and nullahs or erecting gates in different localities of Quetta and there is no massive plan to exploit the available resources to boost the baloch economy in a big way. Similarly, the Government had not prepared a systematic plan to construct a decent infrastructure for future development. Again, the funds is being placed at the disposal of the Balochistan Development Authority which is again going waste as no Government Department is ready to take over the schemes completed by the BDA for the reasons that official specifrications are not strictly followed. Thus all the schemes BDA completed in the recent past had gone waste and the Ministers and officials should be held responsible and accountable for wasting national wealth.
There are very few sectors on which the indigenous population strictly depends for economic returns. They are Livestock, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests, Mineral Wealth and Irrigation. It is an irony that these sectors are completely ignored by the Ministers and officials for obvious reasons that there are less chances to get kick backs and commission. Livestock is the backbnone of the Baloch rural economy and it had never received priority for the past six decades, particularly after the Government introduced yearly planning. More than 70 per cent rural population partially depend on the Livestock and particularly Dairy products for supplement to their food. In fact, for the past 25 years, Livestock Department had been reduced to a mere salary distributing Department to its employees. Same is the case with the Fisheries on the 1200 kilometers long coastline where a few million spent on salaries. All the development programmes are financed by the donors. However, the money allocated for building jetties and fish harbours had been embezzled massively and less than five per cent spent by the Ministers in the past. Fisheries got the potentials to meet the protein requirements of the entire nation and also earn a couple of billions of dollars from export by developing the Seafood industry. Agriculture has the potentials for massive development as Balochistan has 20 million acres of cultivable land which is highly fertile. By bringing the land under cultivation, Balochistan can become the food and fruit basket of the whole region, to say the least. At the same time, there are 50 major and medium size seasonal rivers carrying floos and rainwaters to the Arabian Sea or to the Hamuns in Kharan, Chagai and Pamjgur. The massive flood can be stored by building dams and water storage facilities in all the five ecological zone of Balochistan.
All these massive development projects will ensure job for every one making the Province prosperous and develop comparing with other provinces. The Government should stop wasting money or additional funds from NFC and use it for building the baloch economy on more solid grounds ensuring prosperity and progress in all the regions on Balochistan.
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