Rs1.5m for water filtration plants

Published November 7, 2002

GUJRANWALA, Nov 6: The City Tehsil Council has allocated Rs1.5 million to install filtration plants in various parts of the city for the provision of clean drinking water to citizens.

This decision was taken at a meeting here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of city Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad.

The meeting was told that a filtration plant had already been installed at Zero Point with an expenditure of Rs0.4 million.

Inaugurating the plan, the City Nazim assured the citizens that their problems regarding the drinking water and sewerage would be resolved on priority basis.

He pointed out that another filtration plant was already at work in Sheranwala Bagh.

Meanwhile, Nazimeen and councillors urged the city Nazim to also revamp the cleanliness situation in the city.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A jobless youth committed suicide by taking poison in Gulzar Colony here on Wednesday.

The family members would often admonish Muhammad Nawaz. In dejection, he swallowed pills after quarrelling with his wife. He died on the way to the local DHQ Hospital.

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