Laptop scheme back fired

[Pukhtoon]

Hahahah EPIC lol

 

[alibaz]

Let the money wasted on BB income scheme, rentals, Kali peli taxi, tanoors and laptops go to eliminate circular debt so that they can study and their dads can work in offices and factories. Am sure this way the can have food and their dads can buy them laptop.

 

[Leader]

watch till the end, it goes EPIC....

 

[Nothing]

watch till the end, it goes EPIC....

Haha ... I like creativity in video... it is excellent...

 

[aks18]

on cost of these laptops one IT Tower Could have been made with state of art technology like lahore software technology park now named as arfa karim IT park ,, it was made by PML Q and its cost is 4 billion rupee ,,, and secondly shahbaz sharif calls him self visionary and he want to bring revolution some one plz tell me rite now pakistan is facing brain drainage scene he should try to develop IT parks and new jobs in IT sector instead of wasting money on useless things ,,, if laptops could bring IT revolution every country could have become IT giant

PML Q got better vision and they built better institutes then these ganjaz ,, PML Q started Rescue 1122 in punjab and its a big hit and its the best rescue service in south asia ,, then they made traffic police on new scales they made better institutes and provided better jobs too what these ganjaz n PPP doing ??? i dont know why people call shahbaz shrif a visionary leader ?? what is his vision can any one tell me ?? what i feels his vision is to provide taxi to the graduates instead of a job and provide laptops to students :S he made danish schools instead of providing funds to the rest of thousands of government schools in punjab where millions of students are studying what is his vision ???

 

[somebozo]

Laptop Corruption scam !!

Rs 1.70 billion laptop scandal in Punjab

By Adnan Adil

Lahore: By procuring 110,000 laptops with inferior and outdated processors through a local company instead of directly from the manufacturing company at a much higher than normal price, the Punjab government incurred a loss of at least Rs 1.7 billion to the provincial kitty, Daily Times has learnt.

The Punjab government has bought Dell laptops with outdated Pentium-D processors for Rs 4 billion at a rate of Rs 37,000 per laptop. But the retail market value of this machine is not more than a maximum of Rs 25,000.

In the case of purchase in bulk, the machine’s price would not have exceeded more than Rs 20,000 per piece. Thus, the Punjab government has paid a whopping amount of Rs 1.70 billion in excess of what it should have spent to buy the lot.

Sources say the Punjab government favoured the supplier company by providing it the payment in advance for opening the Letter of Credit (LC). This method is called back-to-back LC. The supplier invested no money of its own for the purchase, the sources added.

Under the law, a copy of any government’s contract worth more than Rs 500 million needs to be sent to NAB, but, intriguingly, the Punjab government has not done so, insiders said.

In addition, the laptops distributed by the provincial government do not carry any guarantee, which is in contrast to the normal practice despite the fact all such machines sold by distributors in the market carry at least a one-year guarantee.

The laptops distributed among Punjab’s students are made of Dell, China, bearing model InspironN4050, but the specifications of the machine distributed by the Punjab government are different from the same model in the market. The Dell-InspironN4050 runs on i3 or i5 processors while the machine provided by the government runs on Pentium-D processor – a processor which is slightly advanced than Pentium-4 but less powerful than Dual Core. Other specifications are as following: (a) Pentium-D processor – a 2.1 GHz processor (b) RAM 2 GB, DDR3, and (c) hard disk 320 GB.

The laptops have Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. The BIOS of the laptops is customised for Linux system and does not support Microsoft Windows, which is widely used in Pakistan. To install Microsoft Windows, the BIOS of the laptops requires upgrading that costs Rs 4,000 per laptop. The Punjab Planning and Development (P&D) Department has bought the machines while the Higher Education Department is responsible for the distribution.

Sources say the laptops have not been purchased directly from the Dell company, which is a normal way of procuring machines in bulk. Instead, the machines were procured through a Pakistani company. When machines in bulk are purchased by large companies or governments from the manufacturers, they are available in less than half the retail price. In this case, the machine’s realistic price could not be more than Rs 20,000 in the wholesale agreement. The government asked the interested parties to submit a hefty amount of Rs 30 million as a surety amount, which crowded out other bidders because they could not submit this amount. Only one company remained in the field and thus enjoyed virtual monopoly to fix the price of the laptops.

The government opened a back-to-back LC to favour the supplier. It means the government provided the company money in advance for opening the LC. Thus, the supplying company invested not a penny to buy these machines from Dell, China. The Punjab government provided all the money, while the supplier reaped huge benefits.

The processor and the motherboard of the laptops are a redundant technology for the last five years. After the Pentium-D (a slightly modified version of Pentium-4) advanced processors of Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, i3, i5 and i7 were introduced in the market. No company now sells laptops of this P-4 technology. The supplier has made huge profits by using low-quality, redundant and cheap processors in the laptops. The laptop machines with much-advanced processors are available even in the retail market in the same price of Rs 37,000.

There are many irregularities in this deal which even a non-expert person like me can point.
It is clear that the purpose of laptop scheme was to:

1. Benefit a pre-selected vendor (perhaps mamoo chacha bhanja or another family member of Sharif brothers)

2. To collect kickback from this vendor for alleged funding of upcoming election campaign.

3. For such a large procurement, government will always invite multiple vendors for few round of negotiations because given the modular architecture of today's PC's and laptops - that amount of money is good enough to setup a local assembly plant and create a few jobs as well. Infact until some time ago, a Pakistani company Inbox Business Technologies (Pvt) Limited used to manufacture Laptops and Desktops locally.

4. And lastly, the procurement is supposed to be directly from the qualifying vendor with warranty and support agreements through a local partner appointed by a manufacturer. And it is not necessary to select a vendor like DELL...which is low quality and expensive products when we could have got a much competitive offer from Taiwan like MSI, ASUS - which is the pioneer of low cost laptops. DELL operates its own subsidiary in Pakistan, DELL Pakistan and it does not make any sense to procure through a middle agent.

Anyone who keeps an eye on IT related news, the specific models of laptop in question were launched a while back by DELL in USA as low cost Ubuntu powered laptops for students and beginners but the product met with miserable failure. So it should not be discounted that someone had an advanded knowledge of these stockpiles r0tting in Dell warehouses and through closed connections with Khadim e Punjab...a pleasurable business deal was cropped up. Hence there is no warranty as these are EOL items.

 

[Leader]

^^ some friend of Hamza Shehbaz

 

[AdeelFaheem]

V Pakistanis as a Nation are in a "Work in Progress" condition. Building a Nation is an Evergoing Process which takes ages and ages. V are just 65yrs old while Nations like Japan (as Nation, not country), China, America, Britian, Greec, Iran, Arabs Etc are very much old. Being Muslim V have our own System (Law, Economics, War etc), V have our own culture, Ethics, Moral Structure... everthing. All V have to do is, Dont Panic, Dont Pessimist, Dont call names to the nation, Encourage every healthy activity , good deeds not worshiping the personalities or opposing personalities blindly... just give this nation time to nurrish and this will give you a "Great Nation" Inshallah!!

 

[Myth_buster_1]

Most of the kids are going to abuse this laptop. Boys are going to surf **** and girls are going to add a webcam and party like an animal.

 

[somebozo]

V Pakistanis as a Nation are in a "Work in Progress" condition. Building a Nation is an Evergoing Process which takes ages and ages. V are just 65yrs old while Nations like Japan (as Nation, not country), China, America, Britian, Greec, Iran, Arabs Etc are very much old. Being Muslim V have our own System (Law, Economics, War etc), V have our own culture, Ethics, Moral Structure... everthing. All V have to do is, Dont Panic, Dont Pessimist, Dont call names to the nation, Encourage every healthy activity , good deeds not worshiping the personalities or opposing personalities blindly... just give this nation time to nurrish and this will give you a "Great Nation" Inshallah!!

this is the nonsense politican feed to jahil awan for covering up their own in-competencies.
Look at Malaysia, Indonesia, Oman, HongKong, Israel..Japan and Germany complete destroyed in WW2.. All of them have defeated us while in 64 years of independence we couldn't even set up a proper administrative structure and country constitution. And whenever we did have good governance it was taken down by foreign proxies. Point in case..Mushraff.

Most of the kids are going to abuse this laptop. Boys are going to surf **** and girls are going to add a webcam and party like an animal.

What warrants that girls will not watch ****?

 

[Myth_buster_1]

What warrants that girls will not watch ****?

because they will broadcast ****

 

[tamsel]

instead give student bicycle free books uniforms and mid day meal scheme to all students.our state government is providing to all students

 

[Evil Flare]

because they will broadcast ****

you should check your mouth first .. Have some Respect which you lacks .... This is not US

 

[somebozo]

you should check your mouth first .. Have some Respect which you lacks .... This is not US

But instincts do not change..this stuff happens widely undercover..just log into Pakistan room at night!

 

[Myth_buster_1]

you should check your mouth first .. Have some Respect which you lacks .... This is not US

Do you know how rampant sex phone talk is among youngsters? Give them means of broadcasting themselves to others and they will do the same.
Our girls are not "sharif" as they use to be once upon a time. My respect for them is going down day by day because of their immoral behavior.