PESHAWAR, Sept 25: Forty filter plants have been installed in Andersher’s Union Council 16 for providing clean drinking water to local people.
Mohammed Ali Safi and Mian Iftikhar, nazim and naib nazim of UC-16, told APP that a total of 40 filter plants had been installed in all major localities of the ward for providing clean drinking water to people.
Apart from the main localities, filter plants had also been installed in schools for provision of the facility to students, they added.
They said they decided to install filter plants because the removal of rusted water pipes needed a lot of money. Filter plants were cheaper and the facility was provided to people at their doorsteps, they added.
The project was completed at a cost of Rs1,00,000 to facilitate about 25,000, said the nazim and his deputy also.
They also informed that books, printed by the NWFP Text Book Board with the assistance of an NGO from Norway, were distributed in public and private primary schools.
Similarly, they added, a beautification campaign was also launched in the UC-16.
PTI POLLS: Engineer Hamidul Haq and Mohammad Asif Khan were elected unopposed president and general secretary of the Peshawar district chapter of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, respectively.
This was notified in a press release issued by the party’s provincial election commissioner here on Monday.
Mr Haq has twice contested the general elections on a PTI ticket from PF-5 (Peshawar-V) and is considered one of the founding members of the PTI. Mr Khan is a former chairman of the All-Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association.
TOURISM DAY: The Sarhad Tourism Corporation has completed arrangements for the World Tourism Day to be observed on Wednesday.
Walks, seminars and debate contests would be held in the city to create awareness among the young generation about importance of tourism. This year’s theme of the World Tourism Day is “Evolution of Tourism”.
The STC will also arrange a function at the Peshawar Museum hall. NWFP Minister for Tourism and Culture Hussain Ahmad Kanju will be the chief guest on the occasion.—APP