Govt spends billions on ruling MPs’ uplift schemes
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ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial governments already spend billions of rupees every year on the development schemes of MPs, particularly those belonging to the treasury benches a fact that was not revealed to the apex court in the recent case about the PM’s announcement of development funds for the ruling party MPs.
Although, the case has been disposed of, official documents show the federal government has been regularly issuing tenders for ordinary development schemes in chaks, villages and UCs of the provinces.
These schemes include sewerage and drainage work, street/road construction, soling and PPC (plain cement concrete) work, etc. According to the law, these schemes are the responsibility of local governments and tehsil/district administrations. However, in these cases, on the recommendation of ruling MPs, the federal government has been implementing such schemes through fe