25 September 2004	Saturday	09 Shaban 1425

HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The director-general of the Hyderabad Development Authority, Tahir Ahmed, has directed the managing- director of the Water and Sanitation Agency to ensure that no sewerage water accumulates on roads leading to mosques and graveyards particularly during the month of Ramazanul Mubarak. He was presiding over a meeting of officials of the HDA on Thursday.

He said there should be no disruption in water supply and generators should be available during power load-shedding. Mr Ahmed said machinery at all pumping stations and tankers should be kept in order and more tankers be hired to ensure water supply to affected areas.

He constituted a committee headed by the additional-director Wasa, Abu Bakar Memon, to supervise all arrangements during the holy month. He directed MD Wasa Shoukat Hayat Bhutto to carry out repairs of lagoons and filter plant on a war footing.

He said lagoons and filter plants be cleansed and chlorinators be purchased and old chlorinators and pumping stations be repaired as the Sindh government had already released Rs70 million for the purpose.

It may be mentioned that tenders for the above works have already been floated. Meanwhile, the Water and Sanitation Agency announced that quality of drinking water had been adversely affected in Latifabad and Hussainabad as no water had been released downstream Kotri for quite a some time. Wasa has already requested the secretary irrigation to release some water downstream Kotri to improve the quality of drinking water.

NFL: Sindh National Labour Federation president Rana Mehmood Ali Khan has announced that his party workers will attend a public meeting of the Jamaat-i-Islami in Naushahro Feroze on Oct 3.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, he said problems of the working class would also be discussed at the meeting and voice would be raised against the IRO 2002 and the Compulsory Retirement Ordinance, 2000.