HYDERABAD, May 18: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil here on Saturday distributed cheques for Rs5,236,940 among 30 retired employees of Wasa as payment of pension and other dues.

Speaking at a ceremony held at his secretariat, the nazim said that all retired Wasa employees had been paid their outstanding dues.

Director General of HDA Altaf Hussain Memon, secretary Shoukat Hayat Bhutto, director accounts Qaisar Ahmed and a large number of other officers of the district government attended the ceremony.

Kanwar Naveed Jamil said that the Sindh government had also provided financial assistance in clearing the outstanding dues of retired employees. He said Wasa had spent more than Rs5,000 million on completing and improving various water supply and sewerage projects to provide modern amenities to people.

He, however, regretted that some consumers avoided to pay their outstanding dues and added that if everyone realised his responsibility and paid his dues regularly and on time, they could be provided more facilities.

He said the outstanding dues could also be recovered through legal procedure but this will create difficulties for consumers.

The WASA employees, he said, were also not making all-out efforts to recover the outstanding dues from the consumers.

Speaking on the occasion, the director general of HAD Altaf Hussain Memon, thanked the district nazim for making payment to the retired employees and added that this had been made possible only due to the personal efforts of Kanwar Naveed Jamil.

COMPUTER CALL CENTRE: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has directed the authorities concerned to complete the work of the civic centre computer call centre without any delay to facilitate the public in the registration of their complaints.He issued the directives during a visit to the centre on Saturday.

Secretary of HDA Shoukat Hayat Bhutto informed the district nazim that 90 per cent of the work of the call centre had been completed and assured that the centre will be made functional on experimental basis within a couple of days.

It may be pointed out here that the computer call centre is being established to register complaints of general public relating to all the departments of district government including HDA, Wasa, health, education, revenue, special education, Darul Aman and police departments.

Four computer desks have been set up at the call centre.

DCO of Hyderabad Dr Farooq Ahmed Laghari, secretary HDA and monitoring officer of the centre, Shoukat Hayat Bhutto, MD Wasa Basheer Awan and other officers of the district government were also present on the occasion.