Tag: Wasa

Vice Chairperson Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Sindh Amarnath Motumal has expressed grave concern over non-payment of salaries to employees of Water and...

Parliamentary Housing and Urban Development Secretary Zafar Iqbal Nagra told the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday that WASA Lahore had detected 6,935 illegal water and...

The WASA has launched Rs 5 million projects to desilt Nullah Lai. The WASA started this project on self-help basis as the provincial government...

Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) Secretary Saeed Iqbal Wahlah said in a meeting on Friday with EPD officials, that he will coordinate with the...

Lahore Development Authority Director General Ahad Khan Cheema has imposed the major penalty of dismissal from service on WASA Director Syed Iqtidar Ali Shah,...

At last some good news related to the Walled City surfaced as the Sustainable Development Walled City Lahore (SDWCL) has been given full authority...

To head the inquiry into the death of a minor girl from falling into a manhole, the WASA MD has appointed an officer who...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s fascination with changing government organisations into companies is in full swing and its next target is the Water and...

The Governing Body of the Lahore Development Authority approved the annual budget of LDA and its subordinate agencies, WASA and TEPA, for the fiscal...

Uninterrupted rains, which always change the city into a swimming pool during monsoon, are soon to be no problem for the people, as a...

Despite heavy rain in the provincial metropolis for two hours continuously on Friday noon, a major part of the city remained submerged for a...

The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) on Friday launched “Monsoon Action Plan 2011” to cope up with the hardships of the traditional rainy spell....

The Lahore High Court (LHC) was told on Tuesday that the Punjab government has given Rs 42 million to the Water and Sanitation Authority...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice (CJ) on Tuesday sought a report from the Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) managing director (MD) for May 3 in a suo motu case and identical writ petitions against presence of arsenic in the tube-wells of the city. On earlier orders by the court, WASA managing director was expected to submit a reply and detailed report on Tuesday, however it was not carried out. Upon this, LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry passed fresh

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Wednesday summoned Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) managing director for April 19 in a suo motu case and petitions against presence of arsenic in the city's tubewells.
Former CJ Khawaja Muhammad Sharif had taken suo motu notice last year and Advocates Mateenul Haq and Muhammad Sohail Dar had filed writ petitions pointing out that citizens were suffering from hepatitis and other diseases after

LAHORE - The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) is fast heading to bankruptcy as its budgetary deficit is about to surge from Rs 3 billion to 3.5 billion with the increase in petroleum prices. Out of Rs 3 billion, deficit attributable to electricity bills is Rs 2.5 billion. After the increase in petroleum prices, under the new fuel adjustment charges, electricity bills are bound to jack up, inflating WASA's bills by Rs 500 million annually. Sources in WASA told Pakistan Today that the

HAFIZABAD - The protest of Water Management Department's employees, demanding increase in their salaries, entered the 8th day. The joint action committee leaders, Zafar Iqbal, Mazaffar Siddique and Amir Shahzad said the government was neither regularising employees nor was it raising their salaries though highly educated engineers, agriculture experts, sub-engineers and computer programmers, serving in the department.
They added that 2,200 families of these employees were facing