HYDERABAD: Former Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and eminent economist Dr Ishrat Husain has said that Thar Coal projects will turn the underdeveloped district of Tharparkar into a developed region.
“The Pakistan government and other corporate sector organizations should adopt the social development model devised and implemented by the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) in Thar to help the uplift other areas lagging behind in development of the country,” he said while speaking at a ceremony in Tharparkar.
Accompanied by Ameena Saiyid, head of the Oxofrd University Press, he inaugurated a Thar Foundation-established school in village Abban jo Tarr and a handicrafts center in Thar Coal Block II. The center has been established by Thar Foundation to empower the Thari women economically by removing the middleman factor. Dr Husain lauded Thar Foundation’s social development model.
“We could do away with illiteracy, poverty, and hunger if Pakistan’s private sector adopted the development model in place in Thar,” he said.
He said that mining and power projects were comparatively an easy job when compared with the area’s social and economic uplift. He acknowledged that social and economic uplift were very well handled by the SECMC in Tharparkar.
