Quetta drain cleaning termed top priority

Drainage systems have been badly affected due to rain

QUETTA:

Administrator of Local Government (LG) Quetta Asmatullah Bazai on Thursday said that all available resources were being used to improve the water drainage and sanitation situation during the recent monsoon rains.

He expressed these views while talking to journalists at his office.

Bazai said that since he took charge as the administrator LG, his department had been working day and night for cleaning the area. He said that Agbarg, Nohsar, Kechibaig, Kuchlak, Balili and other areas within the district council were densely populated therefore focus was being given to maintain cleaning of drainage system during the monsoon rains.

On the special instructions of Minister for Local Government Sardar Muhammad Saleh Bhootani and Secretary LG Dostin Jamaldini, emergency had been imposed and an emergency cell had been established in the LG office which was monitoring the situation.

He said that due to recent rains, there had been loss of life and property in the areas coming under the district council. Bazai said that the district council was facing difficulties due to limited funds, demanding additional funds from the provincial government for cleaning of major drains.

The LG department was utilizing all the machinery to clean drainage systems and nullahs.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 29^th, 2022.