KARACHI, Sept 20: The Defence Housing Authority’s Executive Board approved an additional budgetary allocation of Rs750 million for the financial year 2007-2008 to put in place a modern storm-water drainage system and upgrade the existing sewerage network.
The project will be designed in accordance with contemporary town planning concepts and will be built as part of the overall master plan of the DHA, says a press release issued by the Authority on Thursday.
These decisions were made at a meeting of the board chaired by its President, Corps Commander Lt-Gen Ahsan Azhar Hayat, held at V-Corps Headquarters here on Thursday.
The DHA press release says that the meeting reviewed the infrastructural inadequacies which caused a huge crisis in the DHA during the heavy rains of August 2007.
The board took stock of the technical, organisational and emergency relief inadequacies of the DHA and the Cantonment Board Clifton that had caused immense problems to the area residents.—APP
