October 13, 2008	Monday	Shawwal 13, 1429

HYDERABAD, Oct 12: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that the extended unit of the filter plant will provide clean water to all the people of the city till 2027.

The nazim said at a ceremony for laying the foundation stone for the 20 mgd extension plant at the new filter plant on Jamshoro Road on Saturday that after the plant’s completion, people would be supplied 50 mgd water from this plant.

The project would be completed within nine months at a cost of Rs350 million, he added.

He said that clean drinking water was one of the basic need of a human being and people had a right to have this facility. Hyderabad had remained the capital of Sindh for hundreds of years but unfortunately it had received little attention from successive governments in the past, Mr Jamil said.

Mr Jamil said that the district government was spending billions of rupees on the projects for providing filtered water to people.

Two filer plants at Hala Naka and Paretabad at a cost of Rs400 million each had already been completed while work on a filter plant in Latifabad Unit No.4 was near completion, he said.

He claimed that Hyderabad would be the only city in Pakistan where 100 per cent population would get filtered water. Boats had to be used to rescue marooned people during heavy monsoon rains in 2006 but there were no pools of water even in the low-lying areas during the recent rains of 104 millimetre, he said.

He said that the district government had developed scores of parks and handed them over to TMAs.

The reconstructed and renovated Rani Bagh completed at a cost of Rs150 million would also be handed over to Qasimabad administration within a couple of days, he added.

GRAVEYARDS: Boundary walls had been constructed around different graveyards in the city, Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas at a cost of Rs8.8 million to protect graves and gates had been installed at entry points under instructions of the district nazim, said a handout on Sunday.