PPP - 750 RO plants to be set up in Thar by June this year
Asif Ali Zardari inaugurates water distillation plant in Mithi. PHOTO: NNI HYDERABAD / MITHI: Promising to supply clean drinking water to each village in the desert region of Tharparkar, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari inaugurated what is being billed as Pakistan’s largest reverse osmosis (RO) plant in Mithi on Wednesday.
The hybrid solar desalination plant, set up at a cost of Rs934 million in the Misri Shah area of Mithi, will process up to two million gallons of water a day. The filtered water will be supplied to the Mithi and Islamkot tehsils, and the close to 100 villages located around them.
“The entire Tharparkar region will get potable water before the PPP’s tenure in Sindh government is over,” Zardari said at the inauguration ceremony. He was accompanied by his daughter Bakhtawar.
“PPP might be criticised by some on various aspects, but our manifesto is to serve the people. We remain strong in both Sindh and the rest of Pakistan,” he said.The Sindh government plans to set up as many as 750 RO plants across Tharparkar at a total cost of Rs5 billion. According to the spokesperson of Pak Oasis – the company building these plants – around 150 of them have been made functional. The remaining will become functional before June this year, he said.
The Misri Shah plant has been designed to function on solar energy during power outages to ensure water is filtered 24 hours a day.
“We plan to introduce solar-powered tube wells and water pumps in Sindh,” Zardari said at the ceremony.
Acknowledging the issues confronting minorities in the province, he asked Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah to give jobs to the Meghwadh, Kohli and Bheel people of the province through the special minority quota.
Zardari also said land in Tharparkar was being surveyed for setting up industries. He added that people of the region will be provided easy loans through Sindh Bank to help them practise cattle farming.
CM Shah said he will make sure all 750 RO plants are functional before the end of June.Zardari also held a brief meeting with the local leaders at Darbar Hall in Mithi. The media was denied access to both the events.
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Darawat Dam in Jamshoro
Darawat Dam, after completion, will irrigate 50,000 acres of land and bring socio-economic development in remote areas of Sindh. It is being constructed at the cost of Rs 9300 million. It would store 121,600 acre feet of flood water and provide employment opportunities and emancipation for the women. The concrete-faced rock-filled dam is 820 feet long and 141 feet high, which will help creating 4,500 employment opportunities during the construction, operation and its maintenance.
President Asif Ali Zardari unveiling the plaque to inaugurate the scheme of Provision of 50,000 residential plots for poorest of the poor under Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto towns Sindh at Karachi on March 12, 2013.
An unmatched welfare scheme of the Government of Sindh for low income families :
The Sindh government has launched the scheme Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Towns under the instructions of former President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari for providing 50,000 plots free of cost to the poorest of the poor families. The infrastructure development work on 18,000 plots in Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Towns, Karachi have almost been completed and will be ready for construction of houses soon.
In the first phase of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Town 27,500 plots has been allotted through balloting in 8th districts of Karachi, Hayderabad, Jamshoro, Thatta, Dadu,Mirpurkhas, Khairpur and Tando Muhammad Khan.Government of Sindh will bear the expenditure incured on development work as well as on provision of water, electricity and gas connection.
The development work in the SMBBT is being monitored by Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Local Government Minister Syed Owais Muzaffar. Special efforts were made for early completion of all development works which are being carried out under final stage only because of keen interest of Local Government Minister.