Google Earth to help identify proper goths for BISP


July 24, 2010

KARACHI: Google Earth will help the government identify goths and villages to ensure that land is fairly distributed under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), said President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday.

He was addressing the 11th draw of the ‘Wasila Haq’ programme of the BISP that gives people a monthly stipend and Rs300,000 to start a family business.

On another note, he said that if the 4,000MW project had been initiated at Ketti Bandar, the country might not have been suffering from an electricity crisis today.

He said that the new Zulfikarabad city near Thatta will be able to take care of population needs for the next 30 years.

Approximately two million people are on the internet and the PPP government wanted this number to go to 20 million. “We will provide the internet to every village of Sindh by promoting an electronic education system along with establishing electronic banks in the province,” he said.

The president performed the ground-breaking ceremony of a number of projects in Sindh: a cadet college in Dadu, a garments city in Karachi, the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto chair and convention centre at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro. He also received a briefing on the Thar coal development project.

Later, his spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said that the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto chair at Jamshoro University will provide researchers and scholars an opportunity to dig deep into the political philosophy of the Muslim world’s first elected woman prime minister.  The hope is to gather this material before it is lost in the vagaries of time.

The government has decided to give poor women state land for free in the command areas of proposed dams. Babar mentioned the Protection of Women against Harassment law that the government passed to give working women a sense of security.

Noting that girls from rural areas are unable to pursue higher studies at universities because of a lack of hostels, the president directed the provincial government to set up a Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Girls Hostel at the University of Sindh.

The president told the Sindh government to build residential colonies for journalists in Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana.

He said this during a meeting with office bearers of the Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana press clubs at Chief Minister House on Friday.

The provincial government was also asked to give Rs30 million for a journalist’s colony in Hyderabad.

He announced that a Benazir Bhutto auditorium would be constructed at the Larkana Press Club.

A two-member committee of the Sindh law minister Ayaz Soomro and information advisor Jameel Soomro will monitor the work.

Published in The Express Tribune,  July 24th, 2010.

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