Peshawar—The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attaching great priority to drinking water supply schemes allocated and spent 9097.228 million on 682 water supply schemes throughout the province for the period 2008-2012. Secretary Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Sohail Altaf along with Minister for Information informed a media briefing here on Friday said that Rs. 5437.29 are being spent on execution of four other major projects of water supply schemes in different areas.
He said Rs. 160.841 million and Rs. 1000.145 million were incurred during the year 2007-8 and 2008-9 respectively on completion of 22 water supply schemes, adding that 138380 persons were benefitted from schemes. Similarly, Rs. 1528.694 million were incurred during 2009-10 with completion of 315 sub schemes serving 181200 persons, he said. The secretary said that in 2010-11 the provincial government increased allocation for water supply schemes and spent Rs. 1860.308 million and completed 298 schemes serving 1852632 persons.
In the financial year 2011-12 the allocation was further increased and the final grant was Rs. 3647.240 million was allocated for completion of 45 schemes and rehabilitation of 717 flood affected water supply schemes, the secretary informed. He said that in the financial year 2012-13 the allocation was 3194.48 million for execution of 1126 sub schemes serving population of 1889162 persons.
The department has also set up water quality testing laboratory at Peshawar, Batkhela Malakand and Lakki Marwat in order to reduce water borne diseases and replaced old pipes, Sohail said. He said that 197 rusted water supply pipes have been replaced at a cost of Rs. 366.906 million while another project for the replacement of old.
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