KARACHI, Feb 8: Maj-Gen Salahuddin, D-G Rangers, said on Saturday that the Rangers was planning to set up model water complaint centres in five more towns of the city to help resolve the water problem in these localities.

Talking to newsmen after inaugurating a model water complaint centre in Baldia town, he said that the Pakistan Rangers was working day and night not only for maintaining law and order, but was also participating in the welfare activities.

The complaint centre has been set up in a new building near Baldia Town’s Government Degree Science College, and has four counters, one each for two union councils.

Speaking on the occasion, Abdullah Shah Ghazi Rangers’ 93-Wing Commander, Lt-Col Nisar Ahmed Hashmi, deplored that over 60 per cent of over 8 million population of Baldia Town, was deprived of piped water.

He said the township had been experiencing serious water crisis since its supply came to end from the Hub source and the locality mostly consists of poor and low-income group employees of the city government, KPT and KESC.

He said the rangers had made arrangements for providing 1,000 tankers and their breakup includes 220 tankers to Nazimeen for meeting water requirement of all the eight UCs, and 650 tankers for filling community tanks, while the remaining tankers are sold on commercial basis.

The rangers, he said, had built 105 community tanks in different parts of the township from where residents of water-starved localities fetch water in cans and buckets.

About the two newly-built community tanks near the complaint centre were fulfilling the requirements of between 400 and 500 families of the nearby kachchi abadis.

He thanked Baldia Town’s Nazim Aurangzeb Khan and TMO Ghulam Hussain for their cooperation in setting up the complaint centre. Commandant ASGR, Col Tariq Sharif also spoke.

Deputy Director General, Brig. Mohammed Masood, senior Ranger officers and members union councils were also present.

Shortly after inaugurating the complaint centre, the D-G rangers visited a medical camp which the rangers had set up for the residents of Baldia Town.