Prime Minister’s Task Force on Islamabad Chairman Faisal Sakhi Butt has said the rotten water supply lines in Islamabad would be replaced by spending Rs. 6 billion to ensure the provision of safe water to the citizens.
He said this while talking to a group of journalists in his office on Saturday.
Faisal Sakhi Butt said the present lines had got rotten due to which 30 to 40 percent water was goning wasted. “These lines also catch sewerage water while users receive unhygienic and unsafe drinking water. We need Rs. 6 billion to replace all the faulty lines,” he said. He disclosed the French government had contributed a handsome amount for the purpose and the remaining amount would be arranged shortly to initiate this project, he added.
Butt said the task force was working out on how to improve the public transport, garbage picking and sewerage system in the city to provide the citizens healthy atmosphere “Had the CDA worked properly on these issues, there would have been no need of establishing the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Islamabad,” he mentioned.
Faisal Sakhi Butt was determined to make the ICT a world class city with regard to all civic facilities. He said the trees cut down by the CDA were causing pollen allergy or they were termite-stricken by their roots. “Some 200,000 saplings are being planted every year in the ICT and we have set the target of planting 500,000 saplings this year to combat the environmental problem aroused due to shortage of trees,” Faisal stated.
He said the work on thar coal to produce cheap and required electricity was under way. Chinese experts have arrived while two teams of experts from Russia would shortly arrive in Pakistan to accelerate work on this project. He said the PPP-led federal government had ignored the US government’s threats over the Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline Project in the larger interest of the people of Pakistan which was a unique example of caring the country’s interests. He further stated the PPP would not compromise on the national interests at any cost.
