Upcoming budget: WASA envisages six new water, sanitation schemes
Agency failed to complete various projects due to low disbursement of allocated funds in ongoing year.
Agency failed to complete various projects due to low disbursement of allocated funds in ongoing year. PHOTO: ONLINE
RAWALPINDI:
Despite holding the short straw and getting less than the allocated funds if needed for projects this year, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has envisaged six new water supply and sanitation schemes worth Rs1.177 billion in the next fiscal year.
A senior official told The Express Tribune that the agency plans to install three new tubewells and a new sewage system in Rawalpindi’s PP-4 constituency for Rs28.51 million.
According to the official, the agency has sought Rs98.63 million for installation of 13 new tubewells in NA-54, the constituency of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Malik Abrar Ahmed.
The agency has also sought Rs500 million to replacing rusty and leaking water lines in different areas of the garrison city.
Under another scheme, WASA also plans to spend Rs200 million of sewage lines in four union councils — Khana Dhak, Gangal, Chaklala and in Shah Faisal — in Potohar Town. These UCs were recently included in WASA’s jurisdiction.
The agency has also sought Rs250 million for laying water supply system in different areas of the Potohar Town. The agency has sought Rs100 million for laying new sewerage lines in the constituency of former MNA Hanif Abbasi.
In the previous budget, the agency had sought Rs99.50 million for the water supply system in Abbasi’s constituency, but the Punjab government provided only Rs79.50 million, the official said.
The official said that though the agency carried out work on five old schemes worth Rs1,067.48 million in the outgoing fiscal year, the provincial government released only Rs589.62 million, rendering many projects incomplete.
Similarly, the agency received Rs200 million against a request for Rs592.86 during the current year for water supply schemes in Morgah, Kotha Kallan, Dhoke Chaudhrian, Gulraiz and neighboring housing societies.
The agency was supposed to get Rs168 million for laying trunk, secondary and lateral sewers in seven union councils along the eastern side of Murree Road, but the provincial government released only Rs143 million, rendering the work on the project incomplete.
WASA also carried out up-gradation and rehabilitation work on Rawal Lake Filtration Plant at a cost of Rs160 million but it received only Rs135 million during the outgoing year. Work on the project remains incomplete.
The official said that the agency plans to continue work on the ongoing schemes besides starting six new water supply and sanitation projects during fiscal year 2016-17, for which funds have been sought.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2016.
Despite holding the short straw and getting less than the allocated funds if needed for projects this year, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has envisaged six new water supply and sanitation schemes worth Rs1.177 billion in the next fiscal year.
A senior official told The Express Tribune that the agency plans to install three new tubewells and a new sewage system in Rawalpindi’s PP-4 constituency for Rs28.51 million.
According to the official, the agency has sought Rs98.63 million for installation of 13 new tubewells in NA-54, the constituency of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Malik Abrar Ahmed.
The agency has also sought Rs500 million to replacing rusty and leaking water lines in different areas of the garrison city.
Under another scheme, WASA also plans to spend Rs200 million of sewage lines in four union councils — Khana Dhak, Gangal, Chaklala and in Shah Faisal — in Potohar Town. These UCs were recently included in WASA’s jurisdiction.
The agency has also sought Rs250 million for laying water supply system in different areas of the Potohar Town. The agency has sought Rs100 million for laying new sewerage lines in the constituency of former MNA Hanif Abbasi.
In the previous budget, the agency had sought Rs99.50 million for the water supply system in Abbasi’s constituency, but the Punjab government provided only Rs79.50 million, the official said.
The official said that though the agency carried out work on five old schemes worth Rs1,067.48 million in the outgoing fiscal year, the provincial government released only Rs589.62 million, rendering many projects incomplete.
Similarly, the agency received Rs200 million against a request for Rs592.86 during the current year for water supply schemes in Morgah, Kotha Kallan, Dhoke Chaudhrian, Gulraiz and neighboring housing societies.
The agency was supposed to get Rs168 million for laying trunk, secondary and lateral sewers in seven union councils along the eastern side of Murree Road, but the provincial government released only Rs143 million, rendering the work on the project incomplete.
WASA also carried out up-gradation and rehabilitation work on Rawal Lake Filtration Plant at a cost of Rs160 million but it received only Rs135 million during the outgoing year. Work on the project remains incomplete.
The official said that the agency plans to continue work on the ongoing schemes besides starting six new water supply and sanitation projects during fiscal year 2016-17, for which funds have been sought.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2016.