QUETTA, Nov 29: Governor Balochistan Owais Ahmed Ghani has said the new generation should prepare itself for future challenges of building the nation and eliminating corruption from the society.

He was speaking as chief guest at a declamation contest, jointly arranged by the National Accountability Bureau Quetta and the Provincial Education Department, on the role of students in eradication of corruption from the society here on Wednesday.

He said the actual responsibility of anti-corruption and nation building lies on the shoulders of the young generation since the contemporaries of his generation could not perform well.

“No society could develop without eliminating corruption,” Mr Owais Ghani said, adding that all organisations and civil societies should play their role in creating awareness in the society against corruption.

He lauded the efforts of the NAB in this connection.

The director general of NAB, Balochistan, Major General Salim Nawaz, said that since the inception of Pakistan the total sum of the budget is around Rs 9.1 trillion, out of which Rs2.37 trillion were specified as development head but due to rampant corruption the national wealth was embezzled by corrupt elements of the society.

A prize worth Rs200,000 was announced for the institutions’ top winners in both English and Urdu categories followed by a Rs50,000 cash prize for the winners along with certificates.