LAKKI MARWAT: Residents of Haqdadabad locality here on Friday demanded of the municipal committee to ensure cleanliness in the area and threatened to hold a protest demonstration if it did not take steps for garbage removal and opening of drains.

The residents told this correspondent that the sanitary workers did not show up to remove dumps of garbage and clean drains for the last couple of months.

They said that in Mehmood street of Haqdadabad locality the poor cleanliness condition and clogged drains had made the lives of residents miserable. A resident said that a portion of street near the mosque had turned into a pond of stagnant water due to overflowing filth of drains. Another resident, Najib, said that Haqdadabad was a congested urban locality, but municipal authorities paid no heed to resolve the problems being faced by the people. He claimed that local authorities were repeatedly requested to clean the streets and remove mud from sewage lines, but to no avail.

The residents asked the provincial authorities to direct the municipal officials to launch a cleanliness campaign in the locality.

WATER SCHEMES: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl MPA Noor Saleem Marwat said on Friday that water supply schemes run by solar power system would be installed in PK-75 constituency of Lakki Marwat to resolve the problem of water shortage.

He said that with the installation of solar system with tube wells people would get drinking water daily. He said that he was aware of the water-related problems of his constituency and making sincere efforts to resolve them. He told this correspondent that the provincial government had included a number of water supply schemes in the annual developmental programme for PK-75 constituency on his request. Mr Marwat claimed that new roads would be built while th6e existing road infrastructure from villages to urban areas would be repaired.

He added that the road from Indus Highway to Kakakhel village would be repaired and widened. — Correspondent

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2015

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