The Lodhran Pilot Project (LPP) has imparted one-month residential training to at least 40 associate engineers of civil technology from south Punjab on purely community owned rural sanitation, and the trained engineers also visited Faisalabad to study the social work.
Federal Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives Jehangir Khan Tareen is running the LPP that works in the field of low cost sanitation under the World Bank's project, participatory rural sanitation in south Punjab.
The project includes sanitation in 100 villages of district Lodhran, training of 150 associate engineers, capacity building of local government officials and village sanitation committees.
Briefing the journalists here on Sunday, LPP Project Co-ordinator Najeeb Aslam said that United Nation Development Program (UNDP) expert Fiyyiaz Baqir and others highly appreciated Minister Jehangir Khan Tareen for taking initiative of rural sanitation first time in the history of Pakistan.