Inspired by the practices in Egypt and the US, The new Pakistan Meter app comes up
Well, this is not first time, but this is at a good time. The new governments 100 days are coming to end soon and everybody is talking about results. The app, can be downloaded here New Pakistan Meter, on Google Play store perfectly evaluates the famous Imran Khan who emerged as to be creating New Pakistan. The ‘New Pakistan Meter’ is created to track the promises made by Imran Khan government for first hundred (100) days. These promises if completed in time will surely put the country on right path leading to development, stability and peace.
The “New Pakistan Meter” is a creation of the student of Namal College, run by Khan, and who is basically from the city of prime minister Imran Khan, Mianwali. The agenda of 100 days was unveiled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on May 20, before elections. This app is a good tool for the people of Pakistan to evaluate the new government on good metrics on some factual bases.
Obameter, was a similar project to hold then US president Barack Obama to his massive 500 campaign promises. Egypt-based activists adopted the idea to monitor the performance of former president Mohammad Morsi.
The app has a beautifully put some charts like pie chart which in the first view show performance of new government by showing completed, in progress and broken promises. Further the app gives info of the federal cabinet members, their info and latest news about the new government 100 plans.
Next you see a bar chart which shows promises in seven categories — governance, federation, economy, agriculture, water, society and security.
Every category bar has three colors and a label on left side. Grey color shows pending plans, while the light gray are in progress and dark green shows completed plans. The length of a bar shows total number of promises.
New PTI government is under heavy pressure to deliver. While this app makes this more transparent to individuals but this also makes it good for the government to be evaluated correctly for each promise by showing updates for each of it.
Clearly Pakistan has more challenges then the short period of 100 days to solve them all. Yet, this app gives a new look and more knowledge and a new way of transparency of the Imran Khan team.
After 100-day plan, this app will extend to 5 years and get all the points they plan to work. Imran Khan, the PTI chief, has raised the expectation bar too high and that is the major cause I created this app.
Mostly the people of Pakistan are very overwhelming they vote the political leaders leading them to power but forget about the promises they make in those high pitch speeches, with heart beating music in background during election campaigns. Now, with new Pakistan Meter like apps they will know the reasons if the rulers fail to commit their words.
One thing highlighted by Imran Khan in foreign visits and in his speeches was investment in human beings instead of infrastructure. This concept was applied in countries like Singapore, which got independence in 1960s, and now is a developed country with high literacy rate. This fascinating concept also pushed the overseas Pakistanis, to vote and choose their leader.
Other parties like Pakistan Muslim Leage Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPPP) have also put a keen eye on the promises of Imran Khan and his team. Their curiosity to track the promises can also be fulfilled with this fully fledged app that can track down to individual minister level.
I as a student of Namal Knowledge city, who got free education from the Namal College a charity work started by Imran Khan, hope that the PTI team would fulfill promises as he did always with giving awareness to Pakistani people, pointing out corruption, creating cancer hospital Shaukat Khanam, making international level university Namal College, and leading Pakistan Cricket Team in world cup 1992 to victory.
