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HYDERABAD, May 23: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil said on Tuesday that major development projects, including a flyover, a trauma centre, a food-testing laboratory and bridges on canals would be completed in the district in the coming month.
The nazim said after laying the foundation stone for the construction of a filter plant at Hala Naka water works that it was the second plant he had inaugurated within a week in the city taluka. The two plants have a capacity of 8 mgd each.
The construction of Hala Naka filter plant which would cost Rs350 million would supply clean drinking water to 200,000 people residing in Liaquat Colony, Firdous Colony, Usmanabad and 20 other colonies.
The plant was constructed in 90s but it lacked room to store more water for the ever-increasing population which had tripled over the past 16 years. People who required 60 mgd water were getting only 40 mgd, the nazim said.
Within next two years, the supply of filtered water would be increased to 80 mgd, enough to meet peoples’ needs up to 2015, he said.
He made it clear that the district was executing development schemes in all the four talukas of without any discrimination.
ROAD: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil also laid the foundation stone for the four-mile Tando Haider-Tando Qaisar road which would cost Rs8.2 million.
The nazim said that all the roads whether they were built in Hyderabad city or rural talukas would be made from asphalt and concrete, and monitoring teams would check their quality at regular intervals.
He promised that the local hospital would be upgraded and competent doctors would be appointed there to provide better healthcare to the people who had to travel to Civil Hospital Hyderabad in an emergency.
The district government would also install hand pumps in the area, he said.
Nazim Tando Qaisar Faqir Mohammad Iqbal Pahore, Naib Nazim Faisal Nizamani and councillors and nazims of adjoining union councils thanked the nazim for initiating development schemes in their areas.
WASA: Managing Director of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) cautioned people against drinking water from the ditches on the bed of river Indus downstream Kotri Barrage as it was unfit for human consumption.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, MD WASA said that WASA was not taking any water from downstream Kotri for its water works in Unit No4, Latifabad and Hussainabad because it was unhygienic.
He said that the WASA had hired tankers to supply drinking water without any charge to the people in the areas hit by water shortage in TMA Latifabad, Qasimabad and Hyderabad city.
He advised people to contact concerned executive engineers (water supply) for supply of water on telephone numbers 9260106-9260232 (Latifabad water supply maintenance division), 9200199 (city water supply and sewerage division) and 9200090 (Qasimabad water supply division).
BANNED: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil under section 144 banned the photostat machines within the limits of Hyderabad district with immediate effect and declared the examination centres for HSC Part-I and II as protected areas.
He authorized the SHOs concerned to register cases under section 188 PPC against violators of the order.
