Reducing Issues for common Man in Pakistan
“Through our willingness to help others, we can learn to be happy rather than Depressed.” (Gerald Jampolsky)
Problem Statement: People don’t have enough money these days so they can buy food for their families. Inflation is too high even people from the lower middle class can not fulfill their basic needs. it will lead them towards suicide.
Overview: Inflation and price hike has affected everyone badly. The high prices of each and everything has made it very difficult for the poor and middle class to survive and feed their families. Our Ruling and upper class has nothing to do with the issues of common people.
They are enjoying all facilities of their lives without thinking about the poor. Our Channels and media houses are giving more coverage to the upper and ruling class. Non-issues are addressed and discussed more while common and basic issues of the general public are ignored and not taken seriously.
The politics and interests of the ruling class are focused and given more attention while the general public,s issues like unemployment, inflation, terrorism, lack of basic necessities, etc are not given much attention.
If we look at the figures and numbers given by the government, everything seems fine but ground realities are entirely different. Poor is becoming poorer day by day. People don’t have earning power.
Job market is very poor and the majority of educated, skilled, and talented youth don’t have jobs. The situation is getting worst and problems for the poor are rising day by day. People have nothing to do with the figures and numbers. They look at the ground realities which are miserable.
If we look at the developed and welfare countries, we come to know that they have an excellent and people-friendly system and conditions for the poor in general. They collect taxes and then use the tax money for the welfare of people. They do their best to make the lives of common people easy and comfortable.
Their prices mostly remain the same or raised once a year. With raise in the prices, they increase the rates of minimum wages as well. Prices hike doesn’t affect them as the government provides them as much relief as possible. While our situation is entirely opposite. Tax is stolen by the powerful and the amount collected anyhow either goes into the corrupt hands or is used to facilitate the upper and privileged class.
Challenges: If we talk about the challenges faced by the people, it includes a number of things such as fulfilling their basic needs is difficult for them. it’s also difficult for me to analyze these things because people have dignity, they don’t want to do panhandling, for survival.
My Experience: I have experienced a lot of things while observing the problem or getting near to the problem. I have observed that people don’t have enough resources to live a healthy life even they work harder. I have experienced the pain and fear behind that issues.
My Learning: we must take some initiative to resolve their problems. we must take some steps, so they can feel a bit easy and their fear of losing their loved ones because of not having access to basic needs will reduce.
