Reprimanding the bureaucrats concerned for creating hurdles in the way of Aab-i-Pak Authority that was created to provide safe drinking water to people at their doorsteps, Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar Tuesday said that he will hold a meeting with the bureaucrats concerned in next few days; and if their stubbornness continued will expose them in a press conference next Wednesday.

He was talking to media after inaugurating filtration plant installed by the Sarwar Foundation at Deputy Commissioner Office, here today. The governor said the bureaucrats should mend their ways; otherwise, he would be compelled to expose them next Wednesday. "Some bureaucrats had become so senseless that they had no remorse even if children of a lesser God would die while drinking unsafe water; I could no more make lame excuses for delay in providing safe drinking water to people-enough is enough.

The governor Punjab said: "It was his life-long dream and objective to provide clean and safe drinking water to the people in Punjab as well as in other provinces; I was working on the Aab-i-Pak Authority project for the last one-and-a-half-year since Prime Minister Imran Khan directed me to lead the project and ensure provision of safe drinking water to the people."

He regretted that procedural snags had almost wasted two years to keep the authority limping; otherwise, some 20 million people would now be able to switch to save and clean drinking water. He said that he felt pain, when he was reported that children of poor people were dying in hospitals due to water-borne diseases.

He explained that Aab-i-Pak Authority's file was moving from one office to another and facing road-blocks at almost every office. "I myself and the Aab-i-Pak Authority's board will soon apprise Prime Minister Imran Khan about the ground realities," he warned.