HYDERABAD, April 6: The Hyderabad Development Authority director general has expressed concern over non-availability of water, power and sewerage facilities in different residential schemes.

HDA director general Ali Ahmad Lund on Tuesday visited the schemes on the request of a labour councillor of union council-17, Hyderabad city, Mukhtar Mughal. According to a spokesman for the HDA, residents of Gulshan-i- Illahi, phase-II, complained that the sponsor had not installed electricity poles in the housing scheme and the residents had got power lines from far away places.

The residents said that when they approached Hesco officials they told them that it was the responsibility of the sponsor to install the poles. During his visit to other residential schemes, Mr Lund expressed dissatisfaction over water supply system and sewerage.

He asked the director, planning and development, to issue a notice to the sponsors to provide all facilities to people in one month and take action against them under the Sindh Building Control Ordinance, 1979, if they failed to provide the facilities.

Mr Lund also asked the director to immediately remove encroachments on plots of the HDA. He said that in the Gulshan Fareed Illahi village, an amenity plot should be provided even if some residential plots were to be cancelled.

The director, planning and development, Iqbal Memon, director, building control, Masood Ahmad Jumani, director, technical services, Nadeem Rizwan, and other HDA officials accompanied the director general.

Meanwhile, the HDA said the strike call given by the Minority Mazdoor Ittehad was illegal and tantamount to creating unrest among workers. The HDA warned that if any worker responded to the strike call, he would be marked absent and action would be taken against him.