Seven day notice: Minister orders to close illegal hydrants
Memon clarifies government will not support any action that is illegal or is against public interest.
Sindh’s minister for Information and Local Bodies Sharjeel Inam Memon. PHOTO: PPI
ISLAMABAD:
Illegal hydrants closed in the public interest will not be allowed to reopen, said Sindh’s minister for Information and Local Bodies Sharjeel Inam Memon.
Talking to a delegation of the Karachi Water Tankers Association, led by its chairman Iftikhar Ahmed Abbasi, the minister said that illegal hydrants were not only creating problems for the people living in Karachi but were a menace for the water board.
Memon clarified that the government will not support any action that is illegal or is against public interest. He advised the officers to lodge FIRs against people who are acquiring water through illegal connections.
The Sindh information minister ordered that all illegal connections of water hydrants should be terminated in seven days.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2014.
Illegal hydrants closed in the public interest will not be allowed to reopen, said Sindh’s minister for Information and Local Bodies Sharjeel Inam Memon.
Talking to a delegation of the Karachi Water Tankers Association, led by its chairman Iftikhar Ahmed Abbasi, the minister said that illegal hydrants were not only creating problems for the people living in Karachi but were a menace for the water board.
Memon clarified that the government will not support any action that is illegal or is against public interest. He advised the officers to lodge FIRs against people who are acquiring water through illegal connections.
The Sindh information minister ordered that all illegal connections of water hydrants should be terminated in seven days.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2014.