The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has selected six more towns of Sindh for water supply, sanitation, sewerage and solid waste management schemes. An ADB team arrived in the Khairpur town on Friday to conduct survey and feasibility.
The towns selected for the development projects included Nara, Mirwah, Kingri, Nau-shahro Feroze, Saleh Put (Sukkur) and Rohri, which will be provided with basic amenities under the Sindh Basic Urban Services scheme.
The ADB comprises consultants led by Rojer Jackson, Peter Lingwood (Britain), Mitsuhiro Doya (Japan), Taluka Nazim Khairpur, Tahir Imtaiz Phulpoto, Bukhsh Ali Aradin and Syed Sarkar Hussain Shah helped the team to conduct a survey of different parts of the areas. The consultants also held meetings with the Kingri Taluka Nazim, NGOs, councillors, advocates and peoples at the Taluka Municipal Administration.
Talking to APP, Rojer Jackson said that 50 million dollars would be utilised to upgrade the facilities of water supply, sanitation, sewerage and solid waste management. The designing and planning have been started which would be completed by December 2007, and work on these schemes would be initiated by next year.
He said that earlier works were carried out on the grassroots level without planning, but now those works would be carried out with planning of stakeholders, while TMOs and Taluka Nazims would provide facilities to these selected towns of the province.
He said that seminars and workshops would be held from November 2007 to January 2008 and suggestions would be invited from the participants and importance would be given to local community.