Work begins on water supply scheme at Kurak village in Sibi, with storage pond planned

SIBI: Commandant Sibi Scouts Colonel Munir Ahmed Sultan and the Deputy Commissioner Sibi inaugurated work on the project “De-silting of Raw Water Tank, Water Supply Scheme Kurak” in Kurak village under BSDI Phase III.

Wing Commander Colonel Abdul Manan, Assistant Commissioner Sibi and Bakhtiarabad Mir Bahadur Khan Bangulzai, SDO Public Health Engineering Gulab Khan, other district officers, local notables and a large number of residents were present on the occasion.

In a briefing, SDO PHE Gulab Khan said a pond would be built under the project to store water. The water would be carried from there to an overhead tank through pipelines. He said that once the system was complete, it would help resolve the problem of water supply in Kurak village on a permanent basis.

The Commandant and the Deputy Commissioner reviewed the work and directed that the development work be completed on time and to the set standard, so that people could benefit from it soon. Local residents called the project an important need of the area and praised the welfare measures of the Government of Balochistan.

Photo: courtesy DG PR Balochistan