Sewage lines: Govt okays funds for sewage facilities

FAISALABAD: The government has approved of Rs180 million funds for a sewage system to be installed in less developed areas in Faisalabad district, Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Managing Director Syed Zahid Aziz said on Friday. He said that the Punjab government had allocated the amount after WASA had forwarded a PC-1 to the minister for housing and works for the provision of sewage systems throughout the district. He said that 28 per cent of Faisalabad city’s population was bereft of wastewater facilities due to paucity of funds. “According to the plan, sewers of various dimensions measuring 52.62 kilometres would be laid in new housing societies and the less developed areas of the eastern and western sides of the city,” Aziz said. The government would release Rs50 million for the project during the current financial year. The project would be completed in two years. Aziz said paperwork for the plan had been completed and construction would start as soon as the allocated funds were released.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2014.