MITHI: Former President and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to complete installation work of 750 reverse osmosis filtration plants in different villages of Tharparkar by June 2015 to provide clean drinking water to the residents of the area.
Zardari said this while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a solar plant in Tharparkar. Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Rubina Qaim Khani, Murad Ali Shah, Sharjeel Memon and others were present at the ceremony.
The former president said that today was a historical day in the history of Tharparkar that Energy Department of Sindh had completed the biggest solar plant of Asia that would provide potable water to at least 80 villages. He said besides this, the people of Mithi city would be supplied one megawatt (1000 kilowatts) electricity and over 100 other villages would benefit from it.
Zardari said that the government had committed to provide the basic facilities to the people of far-flung areas. He directed the Sindh government to install the maximum number of tubewells and provide loans on easy conditions for the promotion of business of livestock.
Asif Ali Zardari’s daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari accompanied him to the inaugural ceremony. Zardari inaugurated the Reverse Osmosis (RO) filtration plant and drank the purified water following his daughter.