alibaz
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Agreed but my concern was your jag punjabi jag .... slogan in post #4That Punjab bore the brunt of partition ...
Punjab be divided into at least three provinces and if it requires some changes in parameters, That must be done and all areas of country be given chance to develop evenly to maximum possible extent.Income/expenditure per capita in the Potohar Region is at par with that of the Central Punjab. It is the South (and West) Punjab that is comparatively poor.
So if it is on generation of revenue then Sindh should get maximum and within Sindh everything should go to Karachi. But this is not and should not be the distribution system, I believe the time has come once formula of distribution of funds needs to be amended suitably giving priority to narrow down backwardness of areas in all provinces with respect to developed areas.I didn't say that its only the population which dictates distribution of funds from federation to provinces, but it's the major factor. More than 80% (82%) funds from the divisible pool are distributed among the provinces on the basis of population and it remains by far the largest and the most significant factor. As for revenue generation, North Punjab generates much more Revenue than the South Punjab therefore fund distribution based on the generation of revenue will be disadvantageous to the South.
Yes, Lahore gets the Lion's share but in the 2017 annual development plan of the province, southern Punjab had been given 32% share while its population is 31% of the total number of people living in the province.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/140021-Lahore-gets-58pc-share-in-development-budget
I believe you have included Rs 2 Billion package to Lodhran announced by PM during Saddiqe Baloch's election campaign into 32% share of south punjab.
You have elected people all over Pakistan but the 2% ruling elite doesn't want to empower them. Can you tell me any of the province running local bodies in true spirit, a big no.You don't need extra people/machinery for that. It's already in place. All you need to do is to "empower" them.
We have ethnic distributions in Punjab and there are no issues among them but that does not mean that it cannot be sub divided for better administration. At the same time the perception which is fact too that one single province decides who will come in Federal Government for next 5 years, should be curbed and for that we need dividing provinces into smaller units including Punjab.I said ethnic minorities from other provinces come with ridiculous lies about Lahore budget as they themselves want their own provinces to be divided. Ethnic minorities don't exist in punjab because its relatively homogeneous unlike other provinces. If south punjab is getting 1/3 of punjab budget which will be more then what it will get under NFC then distribution is fair.
I gave example of service tax and other provincial revenues earned from big urban centres have doubled in punjab every few years, so much that now NFC award from federal only make 62% of punjab budget.
Punjab which is only province without ethnic hatred issues doesn't need to import that culture from other provinces. Keep fighting it out yourself over quotas, target killings, language in your own provinces.