Upgrade of water supply, sanitation services ordered

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Sardar Faisal Amin Gandapur has ordered improvement in water supply and sanitation facilities in the entire province including the merged districts in order to ensure uninterrupted and round the clock provision of basic municipal services to citizens.

He was presiding over a meeting at the LG Secretariat Peshawar. Besides Secretary LG &RDD Syed Zaheerul Islam Shah, heads of other concerned local bodies, sections and departments attended the meeting. On this occasion, suggestions and recommendations for more functionality of the TMAs, WSSCs and Area Development Authorities were taken into stock and necessary decisions were taken as well.

Faisal Amin Gandapur ordered undertaking separate surveys of the private possession of some tube wells installed with government resources and repairs of the damaged and nonfunctional tube wells on emergency basis.

He also made it clear that all these anomalies should be rectified forthwith.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 25^th, 2022.