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Kamal for elimination of
tanker mafia in City
KARACHI - Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal has directed the
officials of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board to chalk out a
coordinated policy for elimination of tankers mafia and illegal
hydrants and arrange water supply to areas and industries where it
is not reaching through lines.
This would reduce the number of consumers buying water through
tankers and thus do away this business automatically, he said while
addressing a high level meeting in the office of Chairman KWSB here
Friday.
The meeting was attended by Nazim’s special representatives Mohammed
Moin Khan, Imamuddin Shahzad, MD Water Board Qutub Shaikh and other
senior officials.
The meeting discussed the elimination of illegal hydrants in detail.
In a briefing on the occasion MD Water Board said that a campaign is
continuing against illegal hydrants and many of them have been
closed down in affected areas.
However, he said, this business has assumed the shape of a mafia as
a result of which Water Board is faced with various problems.
Addressing the meeting Nazim Mustafa Kamal said that instead of
focussing more on closure of hydrants, Water Board should take such
measures as a result of which this business phases out
automatically.
He said the tanker service should be reduced to minimum to contain
tanker mafia.
He pointed out that Rs 30 billion have been spent on the improvement
of KWSB’s system and network during the last 4 years and it must
make a difference.
He said the effort and policy of Haq Parast leadership is to supply
tap water house to house and factory to factory. Mustafa Kamal
directed that the residential areas where lined water is not being
supplied the work on laying of network and providing connections to
houses be expedited.
He called for survey of industrial areas so that the quota of water
for deficit areas be increased so that the industrialists may not be
constrained to buy tanker water.
He told the officials to prepare a list of areas where pipe water is
not coming and they should be supplied water on priority. He asked
them to take immediate action on complaints lodged at 1339 and
warned that delinquent officials will not be spared.
The Nation:
May 24, 2009 |
