Sewerage

KARACHI: The World Bank has proposed $400 million aid to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board for developing water and sewerage services in Karachi. However, the Sindh government has approved in standard and determined to go move forward with the arrangement. This arrangement initiated from a meeting on Thursday, when World Bank team directed by senior water resources management specialist Andreas Rohde called on Saeed Ghani, Local Government Minister in his office. The meeting includes other members of the team such…

KARACHI: A meeting of the Public Private Partnership policy board chaired by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah took important decisions for expediting the procedures of BRT Yellow and Blue Lines, Malir Expressway and establishment of 50MW power plant for the K-IV project. The meeting was attended by provincial ministers Saeed Ghani, Imtiaz Shaikh, Nasir Shah, Adviser Murtaza Wahab, MPAs Ghulam Qadir Chandio, Awais Qasir Shah, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, concerned provincial secretaries, head of PPP unit Khalid Shaikh…

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that water and sewerage projects in progress in the city were given top priority so that they could be completed in the public interest. The chief minister was presiding over a meeting to review on-going water supply and public transport projects in the city attended by Chief Secretary Major (retd) Azam Suleman and other officials. CM Sindh said that the water demand of Karachi based on 54 gallon per capita per day (GPCD) comes to 918 MGD, and there is a huge…

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday directed the local government and other concerned departments to prepare a master plan for water supply and sewerage system along with treatment facilities and submit the same in his secretariat. He also directed them to work out a detailed plan along with deadline and estimated cost for provision of safe drinking water and treatment of drinking and waste water all over Sindh. This he said while presiding over a high-level meeting held here at the CM House…

RAWALPINDI: The local administration has issued flood warning in Rawalpindi following heavy rains in the garrison city, ARY News reports.

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has appealed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim Ali Shah to impose emergency across Sindh ahead of the monsoon season, ARY News reports.