Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has directed him to reach every worker of the party right from the union council level to division and seek their proposals for making an inclusive pro-poor and d e v e l o p m e n t- o ri e n t e d budget plan. “The purpose of this exercise being carried out on the instruction of the party leadership is to include the input of every party worker at the grassroots level in budget making process and preparation of the development programmes to uplift local areas, ” he said while speaking to PPP’s workers in Sukkur on Tuesday. The PPP chairman during his election campaign had committed to the party workers that the Sindh government would be run on the basis of their valuable input, the CM said and added: “Today, we [the CM & his cabinet members] have reached here to interact with you so that your problems could be heard and resolved accordingly, ” he said and urged the party workers to send him proposals for budget and development works for their local areas through district and divisional presidents. He said the PPP government had turned out to be the
e government of the people, by the people, and for the people. “Let us work together to uplift the life of the poor and downtrodden irrespective of any discrimination, ” he urged the workers. The CM said the party workers had raised various issues, including water shortage, local bodies problems, provision of drinking water [water supply schemes], development of sewerage systems and construction of internal roads. “I have brought my ministers with me, and they have noted the issues raised by you and they will be resolved on a priority basis, ” he said and added he had also noted most of the issues raised in the meeting. Minister Planning & Development Syed Nasir Hussain Shah speaking on the occasion said that on the directives of party leadership, the CM had arrived here along with his cabinet members to seek proposals of party workers on the budget making, preferred developments work as required by the local leadership so that people could be facilitated. He said a pro forma containing the budget and development works columns has been designed that has to be filled out by workers and submited to the CM through their district and divisional presidents. He added that the pro formas had been distributed through local party presidents for the workers. PPP MNA Khursheed Shah urged the CM to bind the bureaucracy to serve the people. Party workers of District Ghotki, speaking on the occasion, complained against oil companies, and national and multinational business establishments in the district, which were allegedly reluctant to provide jobs to local youths and spend their Corporate Social Responsibility budgets in the backward areas of Ghotki. Local bodies elected representatives demanded that the union council budget be enhanced from Rs500,000 to Rs2 million. The party workers of different talukas of the districts of Khairpur, Ghotki and Sukkur demanded that their local areas be given solar-powered water supply, sanitation, and internal road construction schemes. Most of the party workers raised the issue of unemployment. They said that due to the stay order issued by the court against recruitment in the government departments, their youngsters had failed to avail the job opportunities.