KARACHI:
The Sindh authorities has voiced severe considerations over Rs20 billion water dues excellent towards Sindh-based federal establishments.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Meeting on Wednesday directed the extra chief secretary for native governments and the CEO of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Company (KWSC) to formally strategy the involved federal entities to clear their dues.
It was revealed in a PAC assembly, chaired by its Chairman Nisar Khuhro, that the KWSC has not acquired funds from a number of federal establishments since 2016. These embrace Pakistan Metal Mills, Sui Southern Gasoline Firm, Pakistan State Oil (PSO), Karachi Port Belief (KPT), Pakistan Railways, Pakistan Worldwide Airways (PIA), Nationwide Transport Company, Port Qasim Authority, Marine Fisheries, varied cantonment boards, Karachi Shipyard, Pakistan Machine Software Manufacturing facility, Cotton Export Company, and others.
Of the whole excellent dues, PSM alone owes Rs10 billion. “This non-payment by federal establishments is tantamount to financial exploitation of Sindh,” Khuhro said as he criticised the federal authorities for neglecting Sindh’s rightful dues, including that the province is not going to again down from its calls for.
The PAC summoned officers from the related federal establishments to a gathering on January 21. The committee additionally urged the prime minister to take quick discover of the problem and direct the federal entities to settle their excellent dues.