KARACHI, Oct 4: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has separated the bulk consumer department, industrial consumer and government departments for timely dispatch and collection of bills to improve the recoveries and distribution system of bills.

According to a KWSB press release issued on Wednesday, KWSB MD Brig Iftikhar Haider had restructured the meter consumer cell by giving it under the supervision of superintendent engineer of bulk water supply department and eliminating the post of in-charge meter consumer cell. Expert engineers and experienced revenue staff had also been appointed for the new setup.

The meter workshop department was also separated and a sub-engineer was appointed for bulk consumer. Besides, two industrial zones were formed.

Industrial areas of Landhi and Korangi were declared as Zone-I where as Zone-II would be comprised of Federal B. Industrial Area and North Karachi Industrial Area. For these industrial zones, deputy directors were deputed who would be the responsible for all recoveries and distribution of bills.

Director bulk department would report to superintendent engineer about administrative issues while he would report to chief revenue officer about technical matters.

All meter consumers, who did not belong to industry, bulk consumer or government, were also being transferred and in this regard directors bulk water supply was asked to prepare a list of consumers and send it to the town administration.

Chief Engineer Bulk would directly monitor the issues of recoveries and increase in bulk consumers and revenue. Another unit was formed for taking action against defaulting consumers. A sub-engineer would led the unit and report to the executive engineer.

Superintendent engineer would pay surprise visits to check the performance of the officials and ensure proper water supply.

He would also watch the performance of executive engineers, assistant executive engineers and meter readers.—PPI