The authorities of Naokhali municipality began water supply among 4,000 families at Housing, Fakirpur and Khondokar Para areas in the town in a bid to mitigate water problem in the municipal area.
Mayor of municipality Shahid Ullah Khan Sohel formally inaugurated the water supply project on Tuesday afternoon. Officials of the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) took part in the opening ceremony of the water supply in the district town. Among them, DPHE’s project director Md Jahid Uddin Dewan and executive engineer Palash Chandra Das.
DPHE officials said that the water supply project would solve the water crisis in the town for 4,000 families who have been facing acute water crisis for decades. According to the sources, the foundation stone of the Tk 50 crore project was laid in August, 2019 under the water supply and sewerage management expansion programme of Noakhali musicality.