The Water and Sanitation Agencies (WASA) has decided to remove all illegal water connections besides revising the water, sanitation and tariff across Punjab to improve efficiency and reduce financial burden.
Furthermore, the federal government will be requested to assign a social tariff for the WASA to reduce the electricity burden from it while burden of water and sanitation charges on lower group would be reduced and revenue generated by the WASAs would be spent on its required equipment.
This was decided in the second resources mobilisation meeting chaired by Punjab Minister for Finance Hashim Jawan Bakht. The meeting was attended by Punjab Irrigation Minister Mohsin Leghari, Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas and officials concerned. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss the business plan of increasing the indigenous revenue generation of the WASAs.
The Housing and Public Health Engineering secretary briefed the meeting about the proposed business plan of the WASA in Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.
The meeting was also informed that the government would provide Rs18.5 billion subsidy to them by 2023.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2020.
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