The meeting was attended by Minister Local Government Jam Khan Shoro, Minister for Industries Minister Ghulam Qadir Malkani, Minister PHED Fayaz Butt, Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Secretary Health Fazal Pechuho, Secretary Irrigation Jamal Shah, Secretary Finance Secretary Industries Rahim Soomro, Secretary PHED Tamizuddin Khero, Secretary Local Government Ramzan Awan, MD KWSB Hashim Raza Zaidi, DG SEPA Baqaullah Unar, all divisional Commissioners, MD WASA Masood Jumani, DG PCRWR Ghulam Murtaza Arian, VC Mehran University Dr Aslam Uqali and others.
Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem briefing the chief minister said that the population of 21 districts, except Karachi is 29.112 million, including 9.625 million urban and 19.487 million urban generate 100.454 MGD municipal, industrial and hospital sewerage and discharge it from 755 points into ultimate source of clean water.
The districts where treatment plants would be installed for treating the industrial waste are Sukkur, Kotri, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Thatta, Sujawal, Jamshoro and others. Chairman P&D Waseem said that on the directives of the chief minister drainage and sewerage treatment plants schemes have been prepared.
They would cost around Rs 9.612 billion to treat sewerage water before releasing them into water bodies. The chief minister approved installation of 28 sewerage treatment plants to treat industrial waste in nine districts. The CM directed PHE department to sit with Chairman and get all the schemes approved at the earliest so that they could be completed by mid of 2019.
Talking about Greater Karachi Sewerage Plan (S-III), Chairman P&D Waseem said that it is a Rs 36.117 billion scheme to treat 460 MGD waste water. He said PC-I has been cleared from CDWP and the ECNEC has also approved the revised PC-I. The CM said that the population of Karachi is 16.052 million and water requirement at 50GPCD comes to 802.6 MGD while the exiting supply is 650 MGD. He added that the existing sewage being discharged is 460 MGD which include 363 municipal, three MGD hospital and 94 industrial.
Local government minister Jam Khan shoro said that Treatment Plant (TP-1) Haroonabad with a capacity of 100 MGD is being constructed for Rs 5 billions, TP-3 Maripur is being upgraded for Rs 3 billion to treat 100 MGD and TP-3 Maripur (construction of new plant) is also being established for Rs 13.018 billion to treat 80 MGD. The progress of TP-3 up gradation is 35 percent. On this the CM directed Shoro to improve the progress with his personal attention.
Minister Local Government Jam Khan Shoro talking about K-IV said that population of Karachi is 16.052 million, including 14.910 million urban and 1.141 rural. The total water supply demand is 802.6 MGD and existing supply is 650 MGD which shows a shortfall of 152.6 MGD.
The project has been launched at Rs 29.136 billion which includes 260 MGD phase-I, package-A civil work of Rs 12.932 billion, package-B (E&M works) Rs 12.932 billion and consultancy Rs0.950 billion. He said that the financial progress of the project is 27 percent and physical progress is 30 percent.
The chief minister directed MD water board to start preparation of power plant of 50 MW "but make it of 100 MW which would be completed within next two year and meanwhile start negotiations for acquiring a rental power plant so that K-IV phase project could be started in 2019.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017