Faisalabad: Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) Director General Muhammad Suhail Khawaja has announced that relevant departments are taking steps to upgrade the Water and Sanitation Agency’s (WASA) revenue system in order to enhance its recovery collection, a news source reported.
He revealed this in a meeting with experts from the Urban
Unit, Punjab, which was also attended by WASA Managing Director Faqir Muhammad
Chaudhry, FDA ADG Amer Aziz, Chief Engineer Shahid Mehmood, Director Town
Planning Mehr Ayub, Director Estate Management Junaid Hasan, Wasa Director
Revenue Azam Malik, governing body member Majid Hussain, Deputy Director IT Muhammad
Farhan Ali and other high officials.
Khawaja highlighted that ghost water and sewerage connections will be identified through the upgraded revenue system. WASA has recently been facing a financial crunch and efforts are being made to make the agency self-sufficient.
Dr Murtaza Asghar Bukhari – Urban Unit’s consultant – and
other experts present at the meeting presented a number of possible reforms
that could be introduced to improve the WASA’s revenue setup.
