KARACHI, June 2: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Friday said that every house in Lyari would be provided with potable water after four months, as 50-year-old demand of Lyariites had been fulfilled.

He was speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of project of laying 33-inch-diameter pipeline to supply six million gallon daily extra water from K-III Project to Lyari at Bakra Peeri.

The new 2,700 feet-long pipeline is being laid from Hassan Square to Bakra Peeri along Lyari Expressway with an estimated cost of Rs200 million.

Mustafa Kamal said for the first in Lyari history such a big water supply project had been initiated and survey of the line had been conducted in such a way that no area other than Lyari could get water from it. “Soon the basic problem of water in Lyari will be solved forever,” he added.

He told the ceremony that the project completion period was originally six months, but the city government would be able to complete it within four months by working day and night.

The nazim said the amount for the project had been provided by the city government from its own resources, adding he had approved its PC-I submitted by Lyari town nazim within five to seven minutes.

He said that as city nazim he was laying equal emphasis on uplift of Lyari, Gadap, Keamari and Bin Qasim towns as other towns where Haq Parast panel was in majority.

DCO Karachi Fazlur Rehman, MQM MPA Farida Baloch and others also attended the ceremony.—PPI