KARACHI, Nov 15: The Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Sindh, Shehzado Shaikh, has directed the managing director of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board and other concerned officials to complete the K-III project, designed to make available 100mgd water to Karachi, as soon as possible and remove all the hurdles in its way.

He issued the directives while reviewing the pace of work on the project at a meeting at his office on Friday.

He asked the officials to accomplish the task of the water supply scheme, besides technical and paper work, on priority basis. He acknowledged that a sum of Rs997 million had been earmarked in the current fiscal year for the mega project of which the estimated cost was Rs6,103 million.

Mr Shaikh called on the concerned authorities to also expedite the pace of work on the designing, preparation, survey, soil investigation and evaluation with an aim of ensuring supply of maximum possible water to the beneficiaries of the project in the shortest possible time.—APP