By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: The residents of Chitral town have rejected the increase in water rates and asked the tehsil municipal administration to reverse the decision.
They alleged that the Water and Sanitation Unit (WSU), a subsidiary of the Chitral TMA, had increased the tariff without improving the quality of the service.
They said that many localities of the city were without water for the last many months but the residents were receiving water bills regularly. They said that the decision of the increase should have been made on the floor of the tehsil council but it was taken on some other ‘unauthorised’ forum.
When contacted, Sartaj Ahmed Khan, tehsil nazim Chitral who is also the chairman of the WSU, said that it had become unavoidable to increase the rates of drinking water as the prices of other commodities had risen manifold.
He said that the decision was taken by the WSU, which was an authorised body consisting of all the stakeholders.
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If the Tehsil Nazim, the Manager of WSU and their guests refrain from misusing the double cabin of the WSU there will be no need to increase the water rates. To add to the worries of WSU all politicians have, from time to time, been giving water connections to their cronies without bothering about the sustainability of this project.
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