ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning Development and Reforms, Dr Professor Ahsan Iqbal said that under prevailing circumstances the country only needs industrial revolution for economic revival. He was addressing a round table conference on “Improved access to health services”, organised by the Young Development Fellows (YDF) of Planning Commission of Pakistan.
He stressed the need for strengthening, stabilising democratic political system and continuity in developmental policies to achieve the desired result. YDF was an initiative of Planning Commission under which the youth were engaged to generate fresh ideas to take the country towards progress and development.
“It is a national dilemma that in this age of quality human resource, our social sector is among the poorest and least developed.”
He said in order to join the race of developed countries there was a need for strong legs and that could be attained by providing our youth with better health care facilities, eliminating poverty and inequalities from society. “During 35 years of martial law, social sector was badly neglected and meagre expenditures of 0.8 percent and 0.4 percent were made in health, education and other civic facilities.
“The government was trying to bridge these gaps and had allocated funds to enhance the outreach of health care facilities and had launched Rs.12.5 billion community based social sector development programme to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs).
Published in The Express Tribune, June 28th, 2014.
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