HYDERABAD, April 13: A task force formed by the district government to suggest ways of keeping Phuleli canal free of pollution requested in its meeting on Monday that the Sindh governor and chief minister to head it and implement its recommendations.

District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil, who chaired the meeting, said three weeks after the formation of the task force it became clear the district governments concerned were not in a position to implement its recommendations because of their limited resources, and the involvement of other organisations outside their authority. Besides, they were not even competent to take loans, he added.

The meeting, therefore, decided the task force must be headed by Sindh governor or chief minister who had administrative control over all the concerned organisations and had sufficient resources to implement it recommendations.

Mr Naveed said that work on laying a sewerage line to carry effluent across Phuleli canal and into the Northern Treatment Plant behind the ISRA University would be completed at a cost of Rs30 million by the end of June while the work on a treatment plant would be completed at a cost of Rs50 million by the end of December this year.

The meeting asked the committee to submit a report, when the task force met in Badin. The report would be submitted to the governor and chief minister Sindh for its implementation at provincial level.