Tareen for installation of water filtration plants by Dec 20 = ISLAMABAD, Nov 27 (Online): Jehangir Khan Tareen, federal minister for In= dustries, Production and Special initiatives has directed project directo= r CDWI/CDWA and all the provincial governments and the governments of AJ= K, Northern Areas and FATA and the companies working under CDWI to make a= ll the already installed water filtration plants to be functional and get= installed all remaining plants under Clean Drinking Water initiative (CD= WI) not later than December 20, 2006. = He said that all the bottlenecks at every level in the way of installatio= n, completion and operation of filtration plants will be removed to make = sure that people get clean drinking ware promised by the government. = He observed this while chairing a meeting on design and issues relating t= o water filtration plants installed under CDWI and yet to be installed un= der CDWA (Clean Drinking Water for All). Meeting was attended by Secretar= y Industries Shahab Khawaja, Secretary Science and Technology. Secretarie= s Local Governments of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, NWFP, AJK and FATA. Ma= naging Directors WASA of the main cities, Project Director Brig Javed Sik= andar and other senior officials of the MOIP&SI also attended the meeting= =2E = Meeting started with presentations from some 8 companies who briefed the = Minister about the cost, capacity and quality of their respective filtrat= ion plants. Jehangir Khan Tareen said company for installation of the fil= tration plants. = Minister discussed in detail with the representatives of provincial gover= nments the issues relating to the proper functioning of filtration plants= =2E It would be pertinent to mention here that in the last meeting held o= n the same subject, federal minister has directed provincial governments = to come up with reports about the total number of plants installed and th= e number of plants functional in their respective provinces. = The provincial secretaries gave break up about the number of plants insta= lled, those which are functional and the number of plants still to be ins= talled. = The provincial government representative briefed the minister about the p= roblems responsible for non-functioning and non-completion of plants. Lac= k of maintenance, electricity connection and non-availability of operator= s and technical faults were some of the major problems highlighted by the= provinces. = The minister directed So-Safe and Rain Drop (the companies responsible fo= r installation and running of the plants under CDWI) to remove all the fa= ults from the all ready installed plants not later than December 20, 2006= in coordination with Project Director CDWI/CDWA. = It was also decided that operators will be provided training at the erstw= hile divisional headquarters for smooth functioning of the plants. Decisi= on was also reached that a tripartite maintenance contract signed to ensu= re uninterrupted functioning of the plants. Minister directed the PD and = provincial governments to finalize the contract by December 4, 2006. = End.