LAHORE, July 22: Over 88 per cent defaulters of the Water and Sanitation Agency of the Lahore Development Authority have ignored District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood’s offer to pay 70 per cent of their accumulated dues and get the remaining 30 per cent written off.

The District Nazim was apprised of the lukewarm response of defaulters to his offer during a Wasa meeting presided over by him here on Tuesday.

Describing the response as encouraging, the Nazim directed the Wasa authorities to allow the defaulters to clear their dues with 15 per cent concession for another month.

He said that the defaulters failing to clear their dues with 15 per cent concession till Aug 22 should be given yet another month to pay their accumulated arrears with 10 per cent concession.

The accumulated arrears should be recovered from the defaulters failing to avail the concession even in three months with 20 per cent surcharge.

The District Nazim was informed that only 12,921 defaulters out of a total of 107,780 had availed his offer for clearing their dues with 30 per cent concession and paid over Rs60 million to Wasa so far against its accumulated dues of Rs900 million.

The remaining 94,850 defaulters were yet to clear their dues.

The District Nazim was further informed that only private sector defaulters had cleared their dues during the first month of his offer. Not a single government department or agency, including the City District Government (the defunct metropolitan corporation of Lahore, former Lahore district council and the Lahore Development Authority) had bothered to clear the dues.

The District Nazim directed Wasa to attend to complaints about accumulation of storm water in all parts of the city district.

Wasa Managing Director Inam Qadir constituted an inquiry committee to probe into the complaint of Sanda Union Council Nazim Abdul Waheed Qureshi.