Down with Inauguration plaques

Dear Sir, Through your esteemed news site, I would like to point out a very negative practice that is prevailing in Chitral. I mean the culture of inaugural ceremonies and inauguration plaques on projects which at times are smaller than even the ceremony itself.  In Chitral you can see the roads and walls of government buildings littered with boards and plaques saying the project was inaugurated 'badast e Mubarak izzat maab' so and so, etc. 

The matter of fact is that the project was funded and undertaken with government funds which is the duty of the government and right of the people and the mentioned  'izat maab' who happens to be in responsible position then may have at best squandered some money out of these public funds. What is the justification of putting up somebody's personal name on a government project. In no civilised country personal name of the dignitary, is mentioned on plaques of government projects. At most only designation is mentioned. Here we find funny plaques saying so and so i'zzat maab' through his 'dast e mubarak' inaugurated the electrical wiring of a government building or the white washing of a building etc.

I suggest that a ban should be put on inauguration ceremonies and specially plaques with personal names. The reason for my demand is,  these plaques become eyesores and the dignitaries of the succeeding government make it a point to have negative attitude towards the said project because of the displayed plaque of a potential adversary. I also request to remove all existing boards and plaques on government projects bearing personal names of any individual in any position.  -- Farid ul Haq, Chitral, 24 Aug 2011

Comment 1

While endorsing all the points raised in the subject letter, it reminded me an incident of a few years back, when that time District Nazim and MNA both claimed they had solved the electricity problem of Chitral town by installing a powerfull transformer at Jutti lash grid station. In the morning Distict Nazim went there to inaugurate the transformer with security and photographers and same day the MNA went there with the same protocol. Both congratulated the people for this big success and took the credit that this was possible due his sincere efforts. I don’t know whether both ordered to put a plaque of their name or not?, but to my surprise electricity shortage problem worsened in Chitral town immediately after inaugurating this mystic transformer with pomp and show..-- Shoukat Khan Chitral Town

Comment 2

Farid Ul Haq is right about his comment of using the words "Badast-E-Mubarak Izzat Maab" in Inauguration Ceremonies. This everybody knows that in Pakistani Politics they are in the chair for a short period and many of these ministers and leaders are involved in corruption and after end of their party government go to prisons for corruption. The question here is why we hang their name in Government Properties for half century with "Badast Mubarak Izzat Maab". "Izzat Maab" is a big word and should be used for people who build public projects with their own money and resources and not public representatives who use public money which has been half squandered. -- Abdul Qadir, Shoghor, Chitral.

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