Finance: Who will help the little guys?

Sindh government is set to buy 138 double-cabin vehicles for assistant commissioners at a cost of around Rs2 billion, according to a Sept 2 Dawn article. An earlier article said that renowned economist Dr Kaiser Bengali resigned from the federal government’s high-powered committee for rightsizing because he wasn’t in favour of axing 150,000 low-grade jobs (in grade 1 to grade 16). The same piece quoted him as saying that he had recommended abolishing 17 divisions and nearly 50 government organisations that would have reduced a substantial number of top-level jobs (in grade 20 to grade 22) and saved Rs30bn expenses per year. He implied that this recommendation was ignored.