Initiative taken for life improvement in Sindh cities

KARACHI (APP) - Sindh Government has taken an initiative to improve the quality of life in intermediate cities of Sindh.
As a first step the focus has been made on improvement of urban services like water supply, sanitation and Solid Waste Management. North Sindh Urban Services Corporation, one of the three corporations to be set up in the Province, has formally been established.
Its Managing Director and Chief Finance Officer were appointed Thursday at a ceremony held at Planning and Develoment department Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Munawar Opel in the chair. Among others, Naheed Shah Durrani, Special Secretary Finance, Dr Noor ul Haq, Chief Economist and Mohammad Hanif Channa, Project Director Sindh Cities Improvement Program were also present on the occasion.
This was the first time in Pakistan that a corporate urban services utility has been established and incorporated with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) to provide better water supply & sanitation, and solid waste management (SWM) services.
It aims to provide 24 hour water supply and better sewerage and waste water management services in smaller cities in the Province. Along with this, some sanitary landfill sites will also be built in the secondary cities for the first time to cater for proper handling of solid and medical waste in the province.
The Corporation will be Sukkur based, initially covering six participating TMAs - Sukkur, New Sukkur, Rohri, Larkana, Khairpur and Shikarpur while other adjoining towns will join the Corporation next year.
The Corporations Head office will be operational by the end of November, 2009.
On the occasion a Tripartite Financing Agreement was also signed for financing the program being assisted by Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The other two Corporations will be established in the Central and Southern Sindh.
Nazim SFT asks KESC to exempt pumping stations from load-shedding
KARACHI (APP) - Acting Nazim Shah Faisal Town, Irtiza Farooqi Friday directed that all ongoing water supply and sewerage related development works be completed speedily to provide timely facilities to people.
He directed the local KWSB officials to take immediate action on public complaints with regard to water supply and ensure their redressal.
He issued the directives while reviewing the ongoing water supply and sewerage improvement works in various parts of Shah Faisal Town.
TMO Syed Fazeel Ahmed Bukhari and officials of various town departments were also present on the occasion.
The Nazim directed the water board officials to take steps for ensuring supply of clean drinking water to each and every house and ensure its supply to all areas on equal basis to redress public complaints.
During the visit, Irtiza Farooqi also met various delegations of people and exchanged views with them on local problems.
He told them that in order to ensure supply of clean water, the Haq Parast leadership has replaced all defective and sagging lines and laid the pipes in areas which had no supply system at all.
He regretted that water supply system is getting affected because of load-shedding and unannounced power shutdown. Farooqi demanded of the KESC to exempt pumping stations from load-shedding to ensure water supply to people to rid them from mental agonies.