The government of Punjab is spending Rs162 billion for the transportation.How much is Rs162 billion?

[mr42O]

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Cost: The government of Punjab is spending Rs162 billion for the transportation of 250,000 residents of Lahore. Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: Rs162 billion for 250,000 passengers amounts to Rs650,000 per passenger. For the record, Mehran VX sells for Rs630,000 and, in effect, the government of Punjab could have bought a Mehran VX for each and every passenger.

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: Punjab’s population stands at 101 million and the government of Punjab spends a total of Rs59 billion on education and Rs54 billion on health services. Every resident of Punjab will now be taking on an additional Chinese debt of Rs1,600. For the record, the government of Punjab spends Rs600 on a per capita basis on education and Rs500 on a per capita basis on health.

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Every three out of four residents of Punjab do not have access to clean drinking water. Amazingly, Budget 2015-16 allocated a mere Rs12 billion for the water supply of 101 million residents of Punjab.

Question: How about the Orange Line’s financial viability? Answer: The estimated breakeven is Rs175 per ticket. At Rs20 a ticket, the Orange Line will lose Rs40 million a day or Rs14 billion a year (operation and maintenance is estimated at around Rs4 billion a year).

Question: What about the debt payment to the Chinese? Answer: The debt payment of interest and principal is estimated at around Rs30 million a day or Rs10 billion a year (assuming that the Chinese loan is concessional in nature).

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: On a per kilometre basis it converts to Rs6 billion a kilometre – the most expensive of its kind on the face of the planet (the cost of the Lahore Metro Bus was Rs1 billion a kilometre).

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre – comprising outpatient clinics, chemotherapy facility and an inpatient unit – is going to cost Rs4 billion. With Rs162 billion, the government of Punjab could have built 41 such hospitals (Punjab has 36 districts).

For the record, 47 percent of school-age children in Punjab are out-of-school. According to The Citizens Foundation, the cost of building a primary school is Rs17 million. With Rs162 billion, the government of Punjab can build 10,000 good quality primary schools; nearly 300 new schools in each and every one of Punjab’s 36 districts.

For the record, there are 2.9 million school-age children in Punjab who are out-of-school. According to The Citizens Foundation, the yearly cost of educating a child is Rs15,000. The yearly cost of educating all of the 2.9 million will be Rs44 billion.

Someone intelligent once said, “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad.

Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com Twitter: @saleemfarrukh

The Orange Line | Opinion | thenews.com.pk

 

[Dubious]

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Cost: The government of Punjab is spending Rs162 billion for the transportation of 250,000 residents of Lahore. Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: Rs162 billion for 250,000 passengers amounts to Rs650,000 per passenger. For the record, Mehran VX sells for Rs630,000 and, in effect, the government of Punjab could have bought a Mehran VX for each and every passenger.

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: Punjab’s population stands at 101 million and the government of Punjab spends a total of Rs59 billion on education and Rs54 billion on health services. Every resident of Punjab will now be taking on an additional Chinese debt of Rs1,600. For the record, the government of Punjab spends Rs600 on a per capita basis on education and Rs500 on a per capita basis on health.

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Every three out of four residents of Punjab do not have access to clean drinking water. Amazingly, Budget 2015-16 allocated a mere Rs12 billion for the water supply of 101 million residents of Punjab.

Question: How about the Orange Line’s financial viability? Answer: The estimated breakeven is Rs175 per ticket. At Rs20 a ticket, the Orange Line will lose Rs40 million a day or Rs14 billion a year (operation and maintenance is estimated at around Rs4 billion a year).

Question: What about the debt payment to the Chinese? Answer: The debt payment of interest and principal is estimated at around Rs30 million a day or Rs10 billion a year (assuming that the Chinese loan is concessional in nature).

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: On a per kilometre basis it converts to Rs6 billion a kilometre – the most expensive of its kind on the face of the planet (the cost of the Lahore Metro Bus was Rs1 billion a kilometre).

Question: How much is Rs162 billion? Answer: The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre – comprising outpatient clinics, chemotherapy facility and an inpatient unit – is going to cost Rs4 billion. With Rs162 billion, the government of Punjab could have built 41 such hospitals (Punjab has 36 districts).

For the record, 47 percent of school-age children in Punjab are out-of-school. According to The Citizens Foundation, the cost of building a primary school is Rs17 million. With Rs162 billion, the government of Punjab can build 10,000 good quality primary schools; nearly 300 new schools in each and every one of Punjab’s 36 districts.

For the record, there are 2.9 million school-age children in Punjab who are out-of-school. According to The Citizens Foundation, the yearly cost of educating a child is Rs15,000. The yearly cost of educating all of the 2.9 million will be Rs44 billion.

Someone intelligent once said, “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad.

Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com Twitter: @saleemfarrukh

The Orange Line | Opinion | thenews.com.pk

How dare you request to educate the fools by whose votes tyrants become ministers and sit in parliament to fill their pockets more

How dare you ask for better health care....If they improve that no minister will have an excuse to tour abroad with the excuse of getting a check up for getting choked on overeating

How dare you demand clean water, if we have less people with illness how will people suffer and then the ministers pretend to care?

How dare you ask for ANYTHING for the people of Pakistan from the PERSONAL BACK POCKET of the corrupt tyrants who ACTUALLY think doing THEIR WORK and helping the people equals to an EVER LASTING GRATITUDE OF SLAVES?

 

[F.O.X]

The idioticness of this article shows from the statement that lahore's residents are 250,000 only. Do you guys even read before you start posting cr*p blog posts ?

 

[marbella]

May be 250000 ppl it can transport or something.

 

[Dubious]

The idioticness of this article shows from the statement that lahore's residents are 250,000 only. Do you guys even read before you start posting cr*p blog posts ?

Rs162 billion for the transportation of 250,000 residents of Lahore.

for the transportation of that many people doesnt say that many people equate to whole of Lahore....Prob that many people either can use the bus service or actually do use...BTW, wasnt there an article showing how many buses were being used and how many not in use because not many were actually using it as expected?

 

[RazorMC]

All pipe dreams.

They only thing they do is either siphon funds to their own accounts or retart older projects and claim as their own initiative.

 

[Dubious]

All pipe dreams.

They only thing they do is either siphon funds to their own accounts or retart older projects and claim as their own initiative.

Oh they are also doing 2 more things....
it is either finished off in a rush to show off (metro with no drainage) or

Start new projects which is predicted to benefit but when it starts, but along the way the cost triples! Either they have bad economists who cant predict well (talk about 3 decades of expertise) or some really hungry fat *** is eating the money as the project starts!

 

[Nothing]

It is very localize to Lahore so I will not comment on project specific. But this has been frequent where more and more transportation projects are getting approved in one city. Wondering why there is not one single big project which covers existing city as well expand beyond current boundaries so city can grow in all direction and reduce pressure on current population centers. With transportation in far reaches on city will provide cheaper accommodation as well construction growth.
Again why not develop any 2nd tier city with strategic location with this fund and try to make Metro city. In India 10-15 years ago many so called cities except Mumbai-Delhi-Chennai-Kolkatta-Banglore where 2nd tier city. But those are now well developed metro cities with nice infrastructure like metro , international-national airports and industries.
Industries will prefer 2nd tier cities because less costly investment if government is ready to developed. them.
With population with size of Punjab , it can easily accommodated 3-4 Metro cities with population of 3-5 million each.

 

[Hyde]

I don't know why can't the authors get the figures out of budget, government source or any credible agency. What is the need to make such figures?

When the figures of all three transport, health and education budget are incorrect then what's the point of doing so many calculations?

 

[Kambojaric]

The idioticness of this article shows from the statement that lahore's residents are 250,000 only. Do you guys even read before you start posting cr*p blog posts ?

By conservative estimates, Lahores population today is 10 million.

http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf

34. Pakistan Lahore 10,052,000