KARACHI: The District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Central Chairman Rehan Hashmi on Wednesday said that the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board was neglecting the DMC Central and not providing it due share of water for many months despite written and verbal intimations.
Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club, Hashmi said that he could not see the common people in problem, adding that KWSB had caused expenditure of over Rs 110 millions to DMC Central Karachi.
“Wait for awakening of the KWSB would have caused wastage of millions of gallons of drinking water. The broken and leaking sewerage pipelines have been a threat to the locality as these are creating ponds of stagnant dirty water and also mixed with the portable carrying contaminated water to homes. There is need to repair and replacement of water and sewerage pipe lines at many places in the jurisdiction of DMC Central but the KWSB had totally ignored it. Many roads were also damaged due to the leakage of water,” the DMC chairmain said.
Hashmi said that to rid the residence of the disastrous situation, the DMC had decided to carry out the repair and laying of new pipeline on its own expenses, because it was not expected from the KWSB to do any work for the welfare of the people of DMC Central.
He told that to carry out the work of repair and laying of new pipeline for water and sewerage, DMC Central had incurred over 110 million of rupees as per detail -for sewerage line of 140,000 running feet Rs. 75,716,600 was spent; for winching work of 121,912 running feet Rs 10,673,603; for laying pipe line for drinking water of 20,917 running feet Rs 24,394,753; and for drainage construction and cleaning work of 20,917 running feet Rs 7,878,156 was spent hence total amount of 118,663,112 was spent by the DMC Central on its own expenses.
The DMC Chairman demanded of the Sindh and the city governments to make the KWSB to reimburse the amount of Rs.118, 663,112/- to DMC Central so as to enable it to continue its own development work that had left behind due to these unexpected emergency expenses.
“It was a matter to notify that all the work for water and sewerage line had been carried out with the consultation of the district officers of the KWSB so as to let no fault left in the construction work thereof,”
Hashmi expressed his doubt that KWSB authorities might be hatching conspiracy to claim expenditure for the work done by the DMC Central by preparing fake documents.
After press conference, Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashim and Vice Chairman Syed Shakir Ali along with member of council DMC Central, launched agitation, outside the Karachi Press Club, against Government of Sindh and the KWSB for their ‘injustice’ and not providing adequate quantity of water to DMC Central Karachi.