Karachi: Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) will not be privatised. MD/CEO Water Board Syed Salahuddin Ahmed informed. No employee shall be retrenched. He gave full confidence to CBE. Salahuddin Ahmed and Chief Operating Officer Asadullah Khan were talking to United Workers Front CBE Chairman Irshad Khan, President Nadeem Yusuf and General Secretary Waseem Ibrahim. 

CBE officials requested CEO and COO to take measures for improvement of medical department, including reservations regarding privatisation of water board, saying devago pharmacy apart from this, other medical stores and hospitals should be scoured on water board panel. Action should be taken against those medical stores and hospitals which are not providing better facilities to employees, they added. CEO assured them Water Board recovery will become better. Sindh government and World Bank have jointly decided that Board will be made a model institution. 

World Bank released funds to build new office of Water Board, but we have decided to improve same office, in same way, more reforms and improvements will be made in institution, he said. System does not work when discipline ends similarly I will not make any compromise on discipline. For improvement of institution, everyone including me must follow discipline, he added. Strict action will be taken against those who do not work. Water Board has maintained its reputation among citizens despite limited resources on which employees of institution should be appreciated. On dues of employees, he said with meeting with Vice Chairman Water Board Syed Najmi Alam, it was agreed that Sindh government will also be discussed to pay dues of retired employees. It is hoped that Asadullah Khan will continue to play his role for betterment of Board in future. 

Asadullah Khan said that It is clearly written in Act that Board will not be privatised, a new system has been introduced only for improvement and reform of institution. Staff Officer to CEO Anwarul Haque was also present in meeting.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 13 2022

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