ISLAMABAD - Members of the Social Audit Team (SAT) constituted for 19-month long initiative for creating awareness  among the local population of Balochistan regarding budgetary allocation of various public departments on Thursday claimed that people in the backward province have started raising concerns about health and education. 
The initiative, titled “Public Participation for Good Governance and Accountability in Balochistan” started by Individualland Pakistan in March 2014 with the intention of sensitizing the citizens of 13 districts of Balochistan regarding their respective districts budget allocation in the areas of health, education, infrastructure, law and order and women development.
Muhammad Hashim Kakar, a member of SAT team, said that the project has played a vital role in sensitizing the general public about budgetary allocation, therefore, such types of initiatives should be extended to the other districts of the province.
Another member of the SAT team, Hayatullah Shaheen, said that the exposure visit and the project was a great learning opportunity for him as he learned a lot during the meeting with senior journalists in a visit to the German Embassy.
Masba Aram, another member of the SAT team, said that the visit benefited us and it exposes the SAT team members from different districts of Baluchistan to the various aspects of the Federal capital of the country.
In addition, the SAT team members were also taken for a visit to the German Embassy, where they presented their achievements and challenges faced during the execution of the project.
The representatives of the German Embassy briefed the participants on the various initiatives being run by the Embassy.