KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Local Government and Public Health Engineering Syed Nasir Hussain Shah Wednesday said Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government in Sindh was taking every possible step to provide at the earliest clean drinking water to the people of the rural and backward areas of the province, along with standard sewerage system there.
The minister was presiding over a meeting here in his office to review the on-going schemes of drinking water and sewerage , and on making functional the non-operative RO plants.
The participants included Member National Assembly Mehaish Malani, Member Sindh Assembly Muhammad Qasim Soomro, Sindh Secretary Public Health Engineering Saeed Awan, Deputy Commissioner Tharparkar Muhammad Nawaz Sohu and senior officers of PHE.
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that provision of clean drinking water and strong sewerage system was a part of the vision of PPP Chairman Bilal Bhutto Zardari. And, PPP government was striving to provide all basic facilities at the doorstep of the people and upgrade their life standard within shortest possible time.
He also took serious note of the reports about theft of material and accessories to be used in these development schemes and ordered inquiry to fix the responsibility for taking strong legal action against those involved.
He directed for timely completion of the sewerage schemes and that quality of the work must be ensured.
He said the non-operative RO plants be made functional and that all RO plants be properly maintained.
The minister also issued directives that the elected representatives from the respective areas should be taken into confidence and strong liaison be built with them for execution of all the development schemes.
He informed that one RO plant with capacity of 25, 000 gallon per day and completed at the cost of Rs five million was inaugurated on Tuesday in Ibrahim Haidri , a backward area of the city.
Around 30, 000 people of the area would benefit from this plant. In Juma Goth, near Cattle Colony in Landhi, also RO plant would be installed soon.