RAWALPINDI: Six district administrations plan to upgrade 323 out of total 329 water filtration plants functioning in Rawalpindi division.
This was informed a meeting held in commissioner’s office to review the functioning of filtration plants in six districts of Rawalpindi division including Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal, Jhelum, Murree and Talagang.
The dysfunctional filtration plants will be operational within a week, the meeting was informed.
The commissioner directed that the Executive Engineer public health should be assigned duty in every district to conduct water testing of all filtration plants, to ensure the quality of water. Punjab caretaker minister for primary and secondary health Dr Jamal Nasir also attended the meeting along with Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha.
The commissioner said that the Punjab caretaker government was committed to providing clean drinking water to the people, therefore, along with the installation of new plants, it is also necessary to ensure that every plant already installed is fully functional.He directed that all the filtration plants should be fully operational with in one week.
Liaquat Ali Chattha said that every filtration plant should be given a universal number and the details of who is responsible for the maintenance of this plant. He said that cleanliness of the filtration plant is very important, the staff responsible for the safety of the plant should take special care of cleanliness.
He said that providing clean drinking water is our responsibility as well as a good work, in which we have to work with full responsibility. Apart from this, the surrounding philanthropists should also be encouraged to participate in this charity so that more and more filtration plants can be installed to provide clean drinking water to the people.
On this occasion, while briefing about the details of the existing filtration plants in Rawalpindi Division, it was informed that there are a total of 329 filtration plants in Rawalpindi Division, of which 323 are functional and six are non-functional.
According to the details, there are 163 out of 168 functional filtration plants in Rawalpindi district.Attock district has a total of 66 plants out of which 64 are operational.Similarly, seven of the total eight plants are operational in Chakwal while total 87 filtration plants of Jhelum district are complete and operational.
Liaquat Ali Chatha directed that this figure should be 100pc by removing the bottlenecks in the non-functional plants by next week, after which the third party validation of these plants will also be done.
Published in Dawn, May 9th, 2023
