MULTAN, Oct 27: City district nazim Mian Faisal Mukhtar has asked Wasa to submit a Rs5 billion plan to the Punjab planning and development department for a final approval for 28 sewerage and water supply schemes.

Presiding over a meeting of the Multan Development Authority (MDA) and Wasa, the nazim who is also chairman of the MDA, identified the faulty sewerage as the most grievous problem of the city and pledged to solve it on a priority basis.

“Poor planning by past regimes has forced the present government to replace the old system by a new one.” He said that 17 new schemes had been added to the proposed plan and new areas had been included where no sewerage system was operational.

Wasa director Malik Tasaduq Hussain said more than one billion rupees were required to complete on-going six ADP schemes. These schemes included sewerage and water supply pipelines, upgradation of pumping stations, replacement of sewerage lines from Chungi 9 to Jamalpura, and laying of new sewerage lines from old Shujabad road and Sultan colony to Vehari road.

He said that another sum of Rs337 million was needed to complete some non-ADP development schemes like sewerage system at Garden Town, purchase of machines for removing sewage blockade, repair of sewerage systems of Muhammadpur Ghota, Qasim Bela, Moza Jhakarpur, Gulshan Shujat, and Ghosia Colony, and replacement of old water supply lines in Multan city under the Chief Minister’s special programme.

The director said that new schemes included sewerage and water supply schemes at Bosan Road, New Shah Shams Colony, Sameejabad, bypass road, and north and south zones.—APP