For provision of clean drinking water in rural

Punjab province , Govt of Punjab has

established a company The Punjab Saaf Paani
Company under Section 42 of the Companies
Ordinance 1984 which has partnered with
social development organizations to assist PSPC
and local people to come together on one page

to plan and implement sustainable water

schemes. The project package has two main
components
(i)-Social
mobilization
of
communities for formation of Saaf Paani
committees in villages and (ii)- establishment
of RO plants , UFO plants where water is
drinkable and Saaf Paani Sahulat centers where
water is brackish or undrinkable

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The contract agreement ceremony was held in

PSPC Head Office Lahore on 19th Jan 2015. The
contract was signed by PSPC Chief Executive
Officer Mr Farasat Iqbal, Executive Director
MDF Mr. Mustafa Hassan Rajper & CEO Awaz
CDS Mr Zia ur Rehman. General Manager
Strategic Planning Mr Abid Shah Hussainy, CFO
Mr. Nasir Qadir, GM Project M. Muhammad Ali
Shaikh, President MDF Dr. Yameen Memon &
others were present on the occasion.

With approval from PSPC MDF and Awaz

foundation following staff was hired on 6th Feb
2015.:
S.
No

Name of Employee

Designation

Mr. Manzoor Hussain

Project Manager OfficerBhawalpur

Mr. Naushad Raza

Kazi

Manager Entrepreneur &

community Mobilization
Officer-Bhawalpur

Mr. Muhammad
Paryal

Manager Health
&Hygeine OfficerBhawalpur

Mr. Waqas

Admin & Finance OfficerBhawalpur

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6
7
8
9

Mr. WaseemYousaf
Ms. Sidra Noreen
Mr. Abdul Malik
Ms. Sofia Arshad
Mr. Shahzad Ali Khan

SO -Minchanabad
SO- Khanpur
SO -Khanpur
SO -Lodhran
SO- Lodhran

10

Mr. Muhammad
Adnan

SO-Hasilpur

11

Ms. Saadia

SO-Haslipur

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During February all field offices in four
districts under Saaf Pani project have
been established with basic accessories.

A rapid assessment activity has been

started in order to conduct mapping of the
potential villages for two models of the
PSPC . For this 20 well experienced
enumerators have been hired to conduct
rapid field assessment at village basis. In
each of one tehsils of four districts .

The regular project staff and enumerators

were given project orientation to know
about background, rational and objectives
of the project... While the same time, 2day intensive training was begun on
conducting participatory action research in
target villages. The both MDF & Awaz CDS
organized such training at its Hub Office
Bahawalpur on 10th Feb 2015. The 36
partcipants attended the event. The
Regional Director of Punhab Saaf Paani
Company PSPC Mr. Munnim Khan
accompanied by his team participated in

Quarterly Newsletter -December February 2015

the program. He was also the chief guest of the
program.. The event was consisted of indoor
activities comprising of orientation on
questionnaire, following research ethics, field
planning, field staff targets, risk mitigation
strategy, coordination and timely completion of
assignment. The questionnaire was the main
focus of the training, the emphasis was laid on
how to fill it without error and if occurs then its
immediate rectification.
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2
3

Lead Trainers

Designation

Organization

Dr. Yameen
Memon
Mr. Manzoor
Hussain
Mr. Mustafa
Rajper

Team
Leader
Project
Manager
Executive
Director

PSPC Package
2 Project
PSPC Package
2 Project
MDF

A delegation of PSPC with Ms. Lesely J.

Dove a senior consultant of the PSPC from
Yorkshire UK came to 5 villages of District
Lodhran and conducted village gatherings
in Adam Wahin
The following officials of the PSPC &
implementing partner MDF- Awaz CDS
were companied with Ms. Lesely J. Dove:
i.Mr. Muneem Khan (Regional Director
PSPC Bahawalpur)
ii.Mr. Jawaid Akhtar Manager Community
Mobilization PSPC Lahore
iii.Mr.Mohsin
Babbar
Manager
Communication PSPC Lahore
iv. Mr. Pervaiz Gondhal Manager Social
Mobilization PSPC Bahawalpur
v. Mr. Shahzad Senior Engineer PSPC
.

Delegation from Punjab Saaf Paani Company during their visit at Adam Wahan

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vi. Mr. Muhammad Usman District Engineer
PSPC
vii. Ms. Ayesha Research Analyst (Ms. Leselys
Translator)
viii. Mr. Manzoor Hussain Project Manager
MDF-Awaz CDS
ix. Mr. Naushad Kazi Manager Entrepreneur
& Enterprise /Community Mobilization
x. Mr. Muhammad Paryal Health &Hygiene
The Team of Punjab Saaf Pani accompanied by
its partners MDF & Awaz conducted meetings /
discussion with general community separately
with men and women groups. General
community discussed their issues particularly
drinking water. All the villages mentioned above
were using arsenic water of yellow color.
Although government installed water pumps
and pipeline of RWSS but all were dysfunctional
due to many reasons. For future people were
committed to well manage to RWSSs or any
other option suggested by technical team of
PSPC.
Officials of PSPC were told that the company
will bear the operational cost for three years, if
a Filtration Plant is found feasible. On a
question that the people often promise to run
the schemes on their own but end up leaving it
unattended for various reasons, the community
of the mentioned villages promised that, If
they will continue to get clean drinking water
for three years, it would be impossible for them
to let the scheme abandoned or non-functional

The PSPC board meeting was held at its Head

Office in Lahore on 19th Feb 2015. The
meeting was chaired by MPA & Chairperson
Dr. Ayesha; purpose of the meeting was
sharing project progress to know current
strategic position and plan to get maximum
results in minimum time

frame. In such meeting, the following

officials were present from MDF & Awaz
CDS:
1. Dr. Muhammad Yameen Team Leader
PSPC Package 2
2. .Mr. Mustafa Hassan Rajper
Executive Director (MDF)
3. .Mr. Manzoor Hussain Project Manager
PSPC Package 2

A one day PSPC workshop with Partner

Organizations was held in Lahore on 26th
Feb 015.
The main theme of the
workshop was to share progress of the
project and brief the presentation on MIS
& complain response mechanism. The
PSPC officials Mr. Farasat Iqbal CEO PSPC,
Mr.
Mohsin
Babbar
Manager
Communication and Ms. Ayesha Research
Analyst accompanied by other PSPC
officials were present there. A session was
also delivered about the monitoring
indicators while the workshop by Ms.
Lesely; in which workshop she developed
monitoring indicators and briefly described
to the participants. The following officials
from MDF & Awaz CDS were present there.
a. Dr. Muhammad Yameen
PSPC Project

Team Leader

b. Mr. Naveed Software Specialist

c. Mr. Manzoor Project Manager MDF &
Awaz CDS