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FAISALABAD, Dec 11: Water and Sanitation Agency has increased water tariff by 40 per cent for what it claimed meeting deficit and to repay the ADB.
A Wasa source told this correspondent that a formal request was sent to the government which allowed the agency to increase tariff from 20 to 40 per cent. New rates would be introduced from next month.
Under the new tariff, the owners of 2.5 marla plots would have to pay Rs140 instead of Rs100 per month, five marla plot owners Rs210 instead of Rs150, 10 marla plot Rs350 instead of Rs250, one kanal plot Rs490 instead of Rs350, two kanal plot Rs910 instead of Rs650 while above two kanal plot owners would have to pay Rs1,400 instead of Rs1000.
When contacted, a Wasa spokesman confirmed the increase and said the rates would be officially made public within days after getting formal approval from Wasa’s governing body and provincial government.
MNA’s arrest: The PML-N has criticized the arrest of MNA Abid Sher Ali and described it as “vicitimization of parliamentarians to force them to give up protest against the LFO.”
Talking to newsmen here at the residence of the jailed former MNA Mian Abdul Mannan on Thursday, Punjab PML-N President Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa and Secretary-General Khwaja Saad Rafiq said Mr Ali’s arrest exposed the government’s claims of rule of law. “The country is still in the clutches of the army,” they added.
The PML-N, they said, would not bow down to such atrocities and continue its struggle against the LFO for restoration of sovereignty of democratic institutions.
They regretted that “state terrorism” was going on and it was evident from the fact that the LHC had quashed the MPO case registered against Mr Ali and his brother Amir Sher Ali, but the police arrested the former on court premises.
They said the days of government were numbered and the coming year would be the year of elections in which both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif would participate.
