The Prime Minister had announced a grant of Rs four billion for improving the civic and municipal services and other related facilities for residents of Quetta. However, vested interests had started an unprecedented race to grab their share, illegitimate or illegitimate, from the PM grant on the cover of some projects and schemes. Earlier, a group of MPAs, as usual, laid a formal claim and demanded the grant should be equally distributed among the 65 MPAs of the Province for an unexplained reason. However, the demand was rejected out rightly and those elements took a back seat. The grant is for improving the civic services first in the Provincial Capital. In case of schemes—big development projects should be referred to the Federal Government for financing while smaller one should be financed from the Annual Development Plan through the Provincial Assembly. There is no justification for diverting the funds for projects under the cover of development schemes. The basic services and amenities were denied to the people in the past as the least developed localities were discriminated and ignored by the rulers for one reason or the other. A former Chief Minister had to arrange special finances for a highly localized scheme for extending some civic amenities to one of the localities of wider Saryab settlements. The entire Government machinery from the Planning and Development to Finance Department, the Chief Executive of the Province could not fund on genuine basis. It indicated the control of Mafia over development finance in Balochistan and the people have eyes on special funds, including the discretionary funds of the Chief Minister, Governor or the lower functionaries. Thus the demand for funds, preferably the Government funds, is great and the demand continues to rise. Now this time, the Prime Minister announced the grant of Rs five billion thus most of the gangs seek their share, preferably lion share on one pretext or the other.

Quetta remained the most ignored city for the past many decades; all officials came to rule and plundered the city and its people with both hands. Whatever development funds allocated for improving civic services and quality of life were embezzled. The Government of Netherland imposed a virtual ban on making any investment on social sector in Balochistan as its entire fund for underground drainage system for Quetta were misappropriated by the officer In-charge who later stage fled the country to this date. Thus Balochistan achieved notoriety in corruption keeping the past records. Now the Prime Minister had appropriated a special grant of Rs five billion only to improve the quality of life beginning with an improvement in civic amenities plugging the overflowing gutters on permanent basis. The most important need is developing a credible drainage system for all slum or semi-slum localities where people are deprived of their basic municipal rights and civic services. Saryab localities covering more than 14 miles long strip in the southern flank of the city is denied of civic facilities and to this date there is no plan to lay a credible sewerage line covering the entire population of 1.5 million, if not more. The Provincial Government had provided tens of millions to the QMC for cleaning the city. For a day or two, the QMC trucks were seen lifting garbage from Saryab roads and later on they all disappear leaving behind the huge heap of dirt and filth on the roadside leaving aside the dumps inside the slum localities. The dirt and filth are spreading diseases among the people, particularly among the children. It is the duty of the Government to clean all localities without any discrimination so that spending on public health minimized to some extent. The Government should use funds for improving environment first and later on divert the fund for improvement in other sectors of the city life, bacteria-free drinking water supply, recycling the used water, reactivating the water treatment plants and so on.