KARACHI: Sindh caretaker minister Mushtaq Ahmed Shah has said public health engineering department in Sindh is going to establish 23 water testing laboratories at district headquarter level at the cost of Rs 1455 million.
The provincial caretaker minister for irrigation, public health engineering and rural development, inter-provincial coordination and excise and taxation made the promise while presiding over a meeting here in his office on Wednesday. Public Health Engineering and Rural Development Secretary Dr Riaz A Memon and other officers also attended the meeting.
The meeting was informed that Rs 1575 million had been allocated for providing and installation of a solar system for rural water supply and drainage schemes in Sindh Phase-II.
While Rs 666.134 million has been allocated for the rehabilitation of filter plants for urban and rural water supply schemes and Rs 1053.695 million have been allocated for monitoring evaluation and coordinate unit. The caretaker minister Mushtaq Shah, while reviewing the development schemes, asked the officers to speed up work on these schemes and complete them in stipulated time.
“Completion of development schemes on time will definitively benefit the people because we are committed to provide relief to the masses,” he concluded.
