Only gloat and no action

It’s an excruciating experience to hear the ministers of Sindh gloat about their “historic achievements” that have made no difference in the lives of the masses. Issues of great importance continue to pile up and the only time the provincial ministers seem active is when their larynxes are involved.
According to one minister, the provincial government has still been unable to finalise the date for the budget presentation. There has been no progress on the local government elections issue either. Never-ending deliberations are under way and it appears that a lifetime is required for all the stakeholders to reach a consensus on the matter.
Recently, Pakistan People’s Party Sindh general secretary and the supervisor of the party’s census monitoring committee, Taj Haider told the media that the Sindh government was not informed about the changes made in the delimitation of maps that are used to mark the blocks, circles and charges for the house and population census.
He said that even the chief minister and the chief secretary were unaware that these changed were made in 2007 and they believed that the census was being carried out according to the 2002 marking of limits. This pretty much sums up the state of affair in Sindh.
The precedent of ridiculousness that the provincial government has set when it came to the census takes the term “inefficiency” to a whole new level. The federal government was responsible for the carrying out the census, but the provincial government could have helped matters by launching an awareness campaign in the rural areas of Sindh as the complications faced in those places – including many families living under one roof but still counted as occupants of a single house and enumerators not provided with accurate data due to traditional constraints - were pretty much expected. But the government woke up from its slumber only when the harm was done. There were a many irregularities in the first phase of the census and Sindhis might end up becoming minorities in their own province. Is there still any advice for the people managing the affairs of the province? Yes there is. They can still wrap up their lip-service business and show some real action. But will they pay any heed to these words, there is not a flicker of a chance.