LAKKI MARWAT: The Water Supply and Sanitation Company (WSSC) has launched a project with the support of Unicef to provide drinking water to the residents of Bannu city.

Talking to mediapersons at his office, WSSC chief executive officer Tauqeer Hussain Shah said that the project would be completed with the cost of over Rs5 million.

He said the company took notice of the people’s complaints about supply of contaminated water to their houses.

“The WSSC workers collected water samples from a number of houses and sent the same for examination,” he said, adding that the reports received from the laboratory revealed that the water was not fit for human consumption.

Mr Shah said the company had decided to launch the project with the help of Unicef to ensure provision of drinking water to the people. He said that under the project the company would replace rusted and broken supply lines with new ones in the urban locality.

POLIO SECURITY: Commissioner Shaukat Ali Yousafzai has asked the concerned officials to increase the number of polio workers so that the target of making Bannu division free of polio could be achieved successfully.

Chairing a meeting of the divisional task force at his office on Thursday, the commissioner said that eradicating polio was a national obligation.

He said the administration would ensure provision of foolproof security to the polio teams.

The health authorities told the meeting they had finalised arrangements for the five-day anti-polio drive commencing from Jan 17.

FERTILISER SMUGGLING: The district administration of Bannu has launched a special drive to stop smuggling of fertiliser and ensure its availability on controlled rates in the local markets.

An official said that Bannu DC Zubair Niazi had directed officials of his administration to pay surprisevisits to check availability of fertiliser. He said the officials inspected the shops and warehouses of dealers and warned them to avoid hoarding fertilisers.

Published in Dawn, January 14th, 2022