QUETTA: (Parliament Times) The government is taking practical steps to ensure provision of clean drinking water to the people on their doorsteps in Balochistan.
Official Engineering Department Quetta told our correspondent today that 3.9 billion rupees have been allocated in the budget for construction of new water supply schemes in urban as well as rural areas.
He said more than four hundred old and non-operational water supply schemes have been upgraded and made operational.
The official said construction works on six water storage dams and fifty more filtration plants is also in progress with full pace. Besides five hundred water supply tube wells are being converted on solar system at a cost of 2500 million rupees.
