Parliamentary panel terms WASA's bottled water project unnecessary
Friday, 4 September 2009
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Undertakings on Thursday termed the WASA's bottled water project 'Shanti' as unnecessary and involving illogical and huge expenditure, reports UNB.
The committee asked the authority concerned to identify the privileged group of the last caretaker government who benefited from the implementation of the bottled water project. WASA's bottled water project was taken during the last BNP government, according to an official.
Chairman of the Standing Committee Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir told journalists at the Jatiya Sangsad Media Centre in the city that WASA's bottled water project should not be a priority project when it could not supply water to a large number of lower income group and poor people.
He said this bottle water project can be given to the private sector in future.
The committee asked the authority concerned to identify the privileged group of the last caretaker government who benefited from the implementation of the bottled water project. WASA's bottled water project was taken during the last BNP government, according to an official.
Chairman of the Standing Committee Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir told journalists at the Jatiya Sangsad Media Centre in the city that WASA's bottled water project should not be a priority project when it could not supply water to a large number of lower income group and poor people.
He said this bottle water project can be given to the private sector in future.