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KARACHI, Dec 12: The city Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, has warned the KWSB to solve Lyari’s long-standing problem of water shortage within 15 days or admit in writing their failure to do so.
Speaking at an Iftar party hosted in his honour by the Lyari Town’s Nazim in Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai Hall on Wednesday, he asked KWSB officials to improve water supply to Lyari within 15 days, otherwise action would be taken against the KWSB’s officials concerned.
Reiterating that he was committed to help solve the problems of Lyari and other parts of the city without any discrimination, he said he would do his level best to solve the water shortage problem in Lyari on a priority and permanent basis.
Others who spoke on the occasion included the Lyari Town’s Nazim, Abdul khaliq Juma, Waja Karimdad and Rafiq Engineer. PPP Sindh president Nisar Khuhro also attended the Iftar party.
SHORTAGE: Residents of various parts of the city continued to experience an acute shortage of water in Ramazan.
The hard-hit areas are Lyari’s Dariyabad, Dhobi Ghat, parts of Baghdadi, Kharadar’s Nakhuda Street, Old Golimar, North Karachi’s sectors 11-C-1, 5-A and Clifton’s Block 2.
Residents of the affected areas complained that an acute shortage of water had been persisting in their localities since the beginning of Ramazan, but the officials concerned of the KWSB had not taken measures to help restore normal supply, though they had lodged a number of complaints with the KSWB.
Residents of affected sectors of North Karachi deplored that since their localities were inhabitated by low-income people, they could not afford to buy private water tankers for a long period. Now they were left with no choice but to drink sub-soil unhygienic water.
Residents of Clifton’s Block 2 complained that the KWSB had announced that their locality would be supplied water on two days in a week, ie, Wednesday and Saturday, for two hours, but the officials concerned had been supplying water for hardly 45 minutes on the two days with low pressure.
Accusing KWSB officials of not taking any interest in restoring normal supply, they complained that whenever they brought the lingering problem of water shortage to the notice of the KWSB’s officials concerned, they expressed their helplessness in improving the supply position on the pretext that the officials responsible for supplying them bulk water were providing short supply to their locality.
They deplored that, on the one hand, they were not being supplied water according to the official supply schedule and, on the other, some officials of the KWSB had provided illegal connections, of even 2-inch dia, to influential persons in Clifton Block 2, and all their complaints in this regard had so far gone unheeded.
SABZIMANDI: The city Nazim ordered the officials concerned to stop the illegal business of setting up cabins on the premises of new Sabzimandi.
On being told at a function of a North Nazimabad’s school that a dispute had arisen between fruit traders and middlemen at the new Sabzimandi as corrupt elements were selling illegal cabins on the Mandi’s premises, the Nazim rushed to the office of the Sabzimandi’s administrator, Col Javaid Iqbal (retd), where a meeting was already under way between the Sabzimandi’s administration and representatives of middlemen.
At the administrator’s office the Nazim inquired about the illegal business of cabins, and when he did not get any satisfactory reply in this regard from the Sabzimandi’s administration, he took the record of illegal cabins in his custody.
