LAHORE: Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has a large amount of outstanding arrears from various departments of Punjab and the federal government, which has led to a financial crisis for the organisation.
Based on figures collated by Wasa, Punjab has outstanding arrears of 976,491,403 and the federal government has outstanding arrears of 435,191,665.
Wasa wrote letters to every department and sent reminders to try to collect the outstanding arrears, but to no avail. The agency is facing a shortage of funds due to these outstanding arrears, which affects its ongoing projects and disrupts its financial stability.
Amounts owing based on data from the arrears pending
Punjab government’s departments
- PHA (Rs 288,599,666)
- Auqaf Department (Rs 18,837,827)
- Forest Department (Rs 396,647)
- Industrial Department (Rs 2,491,209)
- Archeology Department (Rs 473,000)
- Social Security Department (Rs 130,000)
- MCL (Rs 3,517,400)
- Child Welfare Bureau (Rs 3,985,910)
- Excise and Taxation (Rs 103,171)
- Lahore Development Authority (Rs 3,409)
- Education Department (Rs102,810,494)
- Health Department (Rs 91,149,961)
- HUD&PHED (Rs 83,624,731)
- P&D (Rs 5,200,000)
- Police Department (Rs 27,984,314)
- Punjab Food Authority (Rs 1,800)
- Transport Department (Rs 7,307,249)
- Punjab Forensic Science Agency (Rs 375,000)
- Wildlife & Parks (Rs 1,062,448)
- Agriculture & Livestock (Rs 5,007,320)
- Bureau of Statistics (Rs 175,000)
- CDGL (Rs 154,001,442)
- NESPAK (Rs 91,367)
- Tourism Department (Rs2,089)
- Old Age Benefit Department (Rs 685)
- Labor Welfare Department (Rs 16,763)
- PAF Falcon Complex (Rs 55,091,930)
- Board of Revenue (Rs 2,881,245)
- Civil Defence (Rs 1,861,219)
- Environment Protection Department (Rs 1,467,350)
- FIA (Rs 52,672)
- LWMC (Rs 50,000)
- Pakistan Hockey Federation (Rs 5,318,965)
- Pakistan Cricket Board (Rs 34,913)
- PPSC (Rs 345,996)
- PTCL (Rs 20,876)
- Public Relation Department (Rs 223,155)
- Public Works Department (Rs 70,526,624)
- Punjab Institute of Language & Arts (Rs 1,648,001)
- S&GAD (Rs 22,550,294)
- Sports Board (Rs 3,170,045)
- Water & Power Development (Rs 68,445)
- WAPDA (Rs 12,500).
- National Highway Authority (Rs 2,044,846)
- Irrigation Department (Rs 7,211,683)
- Lahore Art Council (Rs 684,997)
- LESCO (Rs 154,960)
- Finance Department (Rs 6,255)
- Fisheries Department (Rs 3,470,508)
- Lahore High Court (Rs 237,500)
- HEC (Rs 7,522)
Federal Departments
According to data, Wasa still has outstanding receivables against federal government departments as of November 2022;
- NADRA (Rs 8,878)
- Immigration & Passport (Rs 3,119)
- N.T.C Department (Rs 3,119)
- Agriculture Department (Rs 992,600)
- Finance Department (Rs 1,128,700)
- Health Department (Rs 2,550,000)
- WAPDA (Rs 38,037,885)
- Civil Defence (Rs 6,239)
- Military Accounts (Rs 50,040)
- S&GAD (Rs 15,365,240)
- PTCL (Rs 20,876)
- Ministry of Commerce (Rs 3,119)
- PITAC (Rs 3,119)
- Public Works Department (Rs 34,564,059)
- FIA (Rs 42,205)
- National Museum (Rs 160,643)
- Police (Rs 2,858,698)
- T & T (Rs 39,352)
- Post office (Rs 9,351)
- PTV (Rs 62,500)
- National Highway Authority (Rs 638,000)
- Railway (Rs 305,359,600)
- LESCO (Rs 40,990)
- SNGPL (Rs 555,000)
- State Bank (Rs 135,889)
- Board of Revenue (Rs 15,297,757)
- Housing Department (Rs 662,500).
- Export Promotion Bureau (Rs 3,119)
- Excise & Taxation (Rs 870,730)
- Civil Aviation (Rs 15,718,338)
While speaking with The News, WASA Managing Director Ghafran Ahmed reported that the organization has repeatedly written to the departments as well as to the federal and provincial governments to get their outstanding arrears paid.
As a result of these soaring outstanding arrears, Wasa is facing a financial crisis. Besides recovering outstanding arrears from private housing societies, the agency also started a recovery drive.
While the agency continues to send reminders to the government departments to recover arrears, the agency will continue its drive against private housing societies.
The private housing societies were warned to pay their outstanding amounts immediately otherwise they would be disconnected. Sewerage connections of several private housing societies have already been disconnected, and these connections will only be restored once the outstanding arrears have been cleared.
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