Karak: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Malik Zafar Azam on Wednesday announced the provincial government’s intention to construct 10 small dams in Karak, a news source reported. As per the lawmaker, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide funds for the project.
He said that PKR 1.20 billion would be spent on the development of the dams; adding that this initiative is geared towards addressing water shortage in the said constituency. He said that the officials concerned have forwarded a feasibility report on the project for approval.
Previously, Azam and another MPA Mian Nisar Gul Kakakhel held a meeting with Deputy Commissioner Shah Rukh Ali Khan and the sub-divisional officer of the public health engineering department. They apprised the officials concerned about the water woes of the area and asked them to fix the dysfunctional water schemes.
In reply, the public health engineering official informed them that 15 dysfunctional schemes of water supply had been made operational, but a majority of them were inactive due to excessive power outages.
MPA Azam told the media that they had asked to put the water supply schemes on solar power so that uninterrupted supply of water could be ensured.
