KARACHI, Aug 4: Sindh Chief Secretary Dr Mutawakkil Kazi has said that the government has been endeavouring to resolve the water problem of Karachi, for which efforts on K-III Project were being made.

He was talking to a delegation of councillors of Orangi Town, led by UC-9 Nazim Ms Shahnaz Perveen, who called on him at his office on Monday. IGP Sindh Syed Kamal Shah, Deputy Secretary (I&C) Naukhaiz Anwar Siddiqui, and councillors Ms Ameen Baloch, Aftab Ahmed, Shah Alam, Qaiser Rehman and Noor-ul-Huda were also present in the meeting.

The delegates apprised the chief secretary that they had also approached President Pakistan Secretariat for revival of “Urdu Chowk Pumping Station Project”, which was to be completed at a cost of Rs25 million.

The water supply project would facilitate some 2.2 million population of Orangi Town, they said. However, they said that the President Secretariat had asked them to contact the chief secretary in this regard.

They also pointed out other water and sewerage project covering many areas of Orangi Town, including Pakistan Bazaar, Ali Nagar, Benazir Square and Disco Pumping Station, for which assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) would be sought. The cost of the project was estimated Rs30 million, they added.

The chief secretary pledged to do the needful in this regard.—PPI