By Staff Reporter
Karachi: City Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the citizens of Karachi would get a big good news in the next few days as they have got more for the city than what had been achieved in 59 years, our works are for the next 40 years, before us there was a custom in Karachi Water and Sewerage Board to just overlook the broken lines of water and sewerage while today in almost every area changing and repairing work of water and sewerage lines is being carried out. For the first time in its history, The KW&SB has initiated changing of lines on such a large scale and all credit for this goes to MD, KW&SB Brigadier Iftikhar Haider.
This he was stated while addressing a ceremony held by KW&SB Officers & Engineer’s Association as farewell and welcome to the outgoing and new Managing Director at COD Filter Plant on Monday Night.
Additional Vice chairman KW&SB Imam uddin Shehzad, Muhammad Naeem Khan, officers, engineers, contractors, consultants of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board along with large number of representatives from NGO’s were present on this occasion while besides the president officers and engineers association KW&SB Misbahuddin Farid, outgoing MD Brig. Iftikhar Haider and New MD Ghulam Arif also addressed the ceremony. Nazim Karachi agreed that it was due to the efforts of MD Water Board, who remained himself supervised the work while stayed on the roads, that the culture of working among the officers and staff had been flourished and it was a new thing in KW&SB as now they could proudly introduce them as employees of the KW&SB.
He noted that earlier the citizens of Karachi might had not seen any XEN of Water and Sewerage board but today from chief engineer to MD everyone supervises the projects while remained on the roads. “The citizens of Karachi benefited from this while at the same time the ability of performing works worth Rs.16 billion was also proved by the officers and engineers of Karachi water and sewerage board that was until now been daubted.” he added. “Had Brig. Iftikhar not implemented the policies with hard work, zeal and enthusiasm then today we might not had been able to assert that we could complete mega projects within few moths or could embarked on the fastest development work in the world.” he admitted.
He said that the citizens of Karachi would remember the works carried out by us till 40 years as I was fortunate to have a MD like Brig. Iftikhar Haider just after taking oath, who had not only harmonized with our policies but also ensured their implementation in time.