Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar met with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at his office on Tuesday.
Both discussed different matters of mutual interest including development schemes, political matters and also agreed to continue working jointly for the larger good of the public.
Talking on this occasion, Governor Sarwar said that the Punjab government was taking historic steps for public welfare as the provision of necessary facilities to the citizens was the priority of the government. He announced that clean drinking water will be provided to the people through Punjab Aab Pak Authority.
Chief Minister Usman Buzdar reiterated that there was no crisis in Punjab, nor would it be allowed and all government stakeholders were at one page. The PTI government was, even more, stronger under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan and rumour mongers and conspirators were facing defeat at every occasion, he added.
The PTI government was moving forward by taking everyone along and direction and commitments were right. He reaffirmed that transformation of Punjab, as the best province, along with the provision of best available facilities to the people, was the objective of the incumbent government. All will work jointly and no one will be given an opportunity of a complaint. He said that no hurdle will be tolerated in the journey of development under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Meanwhile, the meeting of Aab Pak Authority was also held at CM Office which was jointly chaired by Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Governor Muhammad Sarwar. Different matters including the provision of clean drinking water to the citizens came under review and the chief minister said that this authority has been constituted to provide clean drinking water to every citizen. He reiterated that promise of providing clean drinking water to every nook and corner of the province would be fulfilled. Rs 8 billion have been allocated for the provision of clean drinking water in the annual development programme.
He regretted that an important matter of providing clean drinking water was ignored in the past and directed that matters about Aab Pak Authority should be settled at the earliest along with a business plan.
He further said that operational and maintenance units should also be developed for monitoring and continued functioning of water supply schemes because access to clean drinking water was the right of every citizen. The chief minister said that community’s role was important in the operationalisation of water supply schemes and water filtration plants and added that necessary matters should be moved forward on a fast-track basis as the delay has already occurred.
The governor said that the best team was available for Aab Pak Authority. ‘We want to develop a unified model for ensuring clean drinking water to the citizens and commissioners and deputy commissioners will have to take a lead for this project’, he added.
The meeting was told that 3353 water supply schemes were functional, out of a total of 5136, and 1783 schemes were non-functional. Out of a total of 3050 water filtration plants, 2312 were functional, while 738 were non-functional. Provincial ministers Raja Basharat, Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Hashim Jawan Bakht, Mussarat Jamshed Cheema MPA, SMBR, Chairman Aab Pak Authority Ahmed Nawaz Saleem Mela and others attended the meeting.
