Potable water issue in Mansehra to be solved: Swati

MANSEHRA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati on Thursday said that the provincial government was seriously working to address graveyards and potable water issues in the district.

“Our government has taken water and shortages of burial places in the city and its suburbs seriously and is going to address these issues shortly,” he told a delegation of central traders bodies here.

A delegation of Mansehra’s central traders’ body led by its president Malik Shakeel met with Babar Swati and apprised him of problems faced by them and people in the city and its suburbs.

“Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to supply potable water to people in the city and its suburbs from Paras area of Kaghan valley through the gravity flow with Rs19 billion,” he added.

The KP Assembly speaker said that on his special directives, the deputy commissioner had visited various locations to acquire a suitable place for the graveyard.“We have Rs200 million with the district administration’s account and more, if needed, would be allocated by the provincial government to acquire land for the graveyard,” Swati said.

He said that sewerage lines were built alongside Karakoram Highway, Abbottabad Road and Bypass Road to protect business centres and shops from being inundated in rains under the city beautification scheme launched in his previous tenure as MPA.“Because of our effective planning during this monsoon season rainy water didn’t inundate roads and shops as in previous years,” he added.