Mardan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Food Zahir Shah Toru paid a surprise visit to the sewerage treatment plant (STP) and inspected the ongoing developmental work. He also chaired a meeting in which Deputy Commissioner Mardan and Chief Executive Officer WSSCM Muhammad Fayyaz Khan Sherpao, Chief Engineer Cities Implementation Unit (CIU) Mardan Engineer Imran Zaman, Chief Financial Officer Naveed Akhtar, Manager Municipal Services Muhammad Khalil Akbar, Manager HR and Admin Rahatullah, PMCSC Resident Engineer Arshid Qayum Babar, General Manager Matracon Imran Haider and Deputy Manager Project Qasim Mumtaz Awan participated.
General Manager WSSCM and Chief Engineer of CIU Mardan Engineer Imran Zaman briefed the Minister and stated that under KPCIP project a modern sewerage treatment plant will be constructed. He told through the sewerage treatment plant (STP) project the domestic sewerage connections of six urban union councils will be connected for treatment. The construction work on Eighty two kilometers sewerage network is in full swing and will complete in the specified time. The construction work in Rorya is ninety percent completed while survey has been completed in the rest of Union Councils.
Four thousand and three hundred manholes and thirteen thousand sewerage connections will be constructed. The STP is being built on seventeen acres of land and it will treat six million gallons of wastewater on a daily basis through activated sludge processes.
Minister for Food Zahir Shah Toru shown satisfaction over the ongoing developmental work and urged that the projects should be completed in specified time. He said that the provincial government is trying to improve the living standards of the citizens. The construction of the sewage treatment plant will reduce the health and sanitation problems. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has been launched Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project in five divisional headquarters of the province with the aim to improved sanitation services and living standard of the citizens. He also directed the contractor to speed up the construction work on STP.
