Special PA Panel To Investigate Corruption In Water Supply Scheme

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd May, 2017 ) : The Speaker, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Asad Qaiser Tuesday referred the question of the Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha, parliamentary leader of PML-N to a special committee headed by him to investigate into corruption in a water supply scheme of his constituency.

� The parliamentary leader of PML-N had submitted a question in the provincial assembly in Union Council Dival Manal, Tehsil Havilian, district Abbottabad. In the written reply presented in the house, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department told that the project was approved at the cost of Rs.10 million.

However, PERRA (Provincial Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority) has so far released only one installment of Rs.1.6 million due to which the scheme could not be completed. Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha insisted that a huge amount of Rs.10 million has been wasted on the project.

He requested the Speaker to constitute a committee headed under his own supervision to investigate the matter. He offered that in case of failure in proving the allegation, he will tender resignation from the membership of the house.

The Speaker with the consent of the parliamentary secretary Ayesha Naeem announced the referring of the matter to the special committee for the purpose. In the meanwhile, the house rejected the referring of the question of Mufti Said Janan regarding irregularities in the recruitment of Class-IV employees in the office of the Assistant Director, Local Government and Rural Development (LG&RD), District Hangu.

The JUI-F legislator insisted that the reply of the department is incomplete and it had given details regarding the qualification, test, interviews and domicile of the applicants have been withheld by the department.

Therefore, he said the question should be referred to the standing committee concerned for detail discussion. The Speaker Asad Qaiser put the matter to vote and the house rejected with majority.

Similarly, a question of Azam Khan Durrani regarding the collecting of car parking fee by Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) was also rejected by the house by majority vote of 33:20.7 Meanwhile, replying a supplementary question of Sardar Hussain Babak regarding the construction of Bab-e-Peshawar Flyover at Phase-3 Square, Hayatabad said that National Logistic Cell (NLC) and Frontier Works Organization (FWO) could be granted contracts of works without prior advertisement and competition.

Similarly, the Call Attention Notice of Mahmood Ahmad Khan of JUI-F regarding alleged corruption recruitment on different posts by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Tank was also referred to the concerned standing committee of the house while the Call Attention Notice of Mahmood Jan of PTI was disposed of after the assurance of the Provincial Minister for Information Technology (IT) for completion of the legal course in the regularization of IT teachers and Lab Incharge in Elementary and Secondary education.