KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM), Murad Ali Shah, has said on Saturday that after holding six consecutive meetings with all the concerned departments and going through the facts and figures, he has prepared a report titled `provision of clean drinking water and safe environment to the people of Sindh’ for submission in the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan in the constitutional petition NO.38 of 2016.
The chief minister was presiding over a cabinet meeting here at the CM House to take all the cabinet members into confidence on the improvement of existing water and sanitation system and future endeavours.
Murad Shah told the cabinet that the report spreads over 132 pages which contain 381 schemes including The Annual Development Programme (ADP) schemes of water supply and sewerage system, district-wise report on all points from where municipal, hospital and industrial sewerage is produced, summary of proper sewerage system along with treatment plants with proper source of discharge in all districts, list of district-wise sewerage schemes for rural areas of Sindh included in ADP, component-wise physical and financial progress of Greater Karachi Sewerage Plan S-III, details of five combined effluent treatment plants project, details of Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme, K-IV phase-I and others.
The implementation of the entire plan would cost around Rs400 billion, the CM said. The cabinet discussed and approved the report for submission to the Supreme Court. The Chief Minister also told the cabinet about his appearance before the chief justice of Pakistan in the water case and had briefed him about the efforts his government was taking for the purpose.
The cabinet approved the report and authorized the government to present it to the SC.