THE development projects started by one elected government should be completed by the administration that succeeds it. It is unfortunate that the schemes started by one government hit snags and come to a stop when it is no longer in power.

The Baezae project was started by the Awami National Party government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the last year of its tenure. The scheme was to lay a canal from Dargai to Katlang to benefit small growers and poor farmers. The scheme was almost 80 per cent complete and water released into the canal when the ANP was defeated in the 2013 elections and lost power.

The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf formed government after winning the election and took no further measures to complete the project. The PTI’s tenure will come to an end in a few days, and the Baezae Project remains unfinished and stands at the point where the ANP administration left it.

This is a request to all political parties that come to power to complete the uplift projects of their predecessors as failure to do so means waste of public funds.

Asfandyar Yusufzai

Peshawar

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2018