BY OUR STAFF REPORTER
LAHORE - (March 08 2004)The Punjab Government will sign MoU with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on 11th for securing aid worth Rs 790 million for rehabilitation of drainage system in Lahore.

This was disclosed by District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood during his meeting with head of JICA mission Mr Kayumi Shigetada here on Saturday. Consultants of this aid-giving consortium had alreadyprepared relevant report for improving sewerage system in the City.

Mian Amer Mahmood informed that City District Government (CDG) was not discriminating between urban and rural areas. He said WASA jurisdiction had been extended to over 1770 square Kilometers.

Deputy Managing Director Operations & Maintenance WASA Pervaiz Iftikhar informed the delegation that WASA needed four jetting machines, four sludge suckers, two water tankers, twelve pick up for transportation, eight dump trucks, two drag lines, four submersible sludge pumps, two excavators, one large excavator, two generators, two wheel loaders and six pump sets, each of 40 cusecs capacity, for improving drainage and sewerage facilities in different localities of Lahore.

Prize distribution ceremony: Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat Saturday distributed prizes among the position holders of the University College Raiwind Road. He was chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony of the College. The Minister stressed quality education in the institutions for uplift of the future generations. He said the govt was taking all possible measures to enhance literacy rate in the country.