KOHAT: The Water and Sanitation Services Company (WSSC) established separately from the tehsil municipal administration for cleanliness of Kohat city will become operational from next month.

Giving details, the first chief executive officer of the company, Mr Rauf, said on Thursday that they were in the stage of hiring staff, including engineers and mechanical sweepers.

“We will also take over the relevant staff which earlier worked for TMA and will start our work after release of promised budget by the provincial government for procurement of required machinery and hiring of more staff,” he said, adding that small and big vehicles would be bought keeping in view the demand at road and mohallah levels.

Mr Rauf said that the provincial government had allocated Rs3 billion for six such companies of which they would get their share. He claimed that the people would see a visible change in cleanliness of the city.

Company’s head says people will see visible change in cleanliness

Tehsil revenue officer, Imtiaz, said that all the 200 sweepers would also be placed at the disposal of the new company. He said that the tube well operators would also work under the WSSC. He claimed that WSSC would not only remove garbage, but also wash the place and spray it with insecticides.

KUST ELECTRICITY: The social and political circles have demanded from Peshawar Electric Supply Company’s board of directors chairman Malik Asad to solve the problem of laying of separate line for Kohat University of Science and Technology (Kust).

The unusual delay in laying high tension line from the grid station is affecting studies of over 2,500 students of the university. Earlier, the issue had been taken up with Pesco several times in 2014, 2015 and 2016, but no remedial measures had been taken.

The problem arose when the line reached Bahadar Kot village where the people forcibly stopped work on it, demanding connection from the high tension wire to get rid of low voltage and unscheduled loadshedding in the area. The work has been halted since 2014.

Sources said that the Kust had deposited Rs10 million in 2012 for a separate feeder and line to the university for overcoming the problem of low voltage and unscheduled loadshedding. An official of the university said they had been sending reminders to the provincial government, but there was no response. He said that he had also briefed the Pesco officials about the problem, but they did not reply for once. He said that only 20 per cent work was remaining on the project.

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2016