Call to complete water supply scheme.

KOHAT -- The Rehmanabad-Shakardarra water supply scheme launched in 1985 to provide water to oil and gas-rich areas of Kohat has become a white elephant where millions of rupees have gone down the drain only on feasibility reports.

Despite generating billions of rupees of revenue annually since 2002 the area has been without basic amenities of life.

Talking to Dawn on Monday, MPA Shahdad Khan said the government had approved Rs1.5 billion in 2015 to bring water from the River Indus to the three union councils. The irrigation department recently dug two wells astride the river and then again two more which produced potable water, but as the area was hundreds of feet above the seepage level water could not be pumped up, he added.

The lawmaker said the only solution to the problem was construction of small dams in the area to resolve the gravity issue, but the government was not paying any heed to it.

Similarly, he said the Band Banda dam constructed at a...