Sindh Government to Launch Real-Time Digital Monitoring of RO Plants
— May 2, 2025
KARACHI (AIA) To ensure transparency and effective public service delivery, the Sindh government has decided to introduce a real-time digital monitoring system for all Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Ultra Filtration (UF) plants installed across the province.
The decision was made during a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Sindh Asif Hyder Shah. The meeting was attended by Special Assistant to the Chief Minister for Public Health Engineering Muhammad Saleem Baloch, Additional Chief Secretary Local Government Khalid Hyder Shah, Secretary Public Health Engineering Syed Aijaz Ali Shah, Secretary I&C Abid Saleem Qureshi, Additional Secretary PHE Muhammad Bux Jarwar, and engineers from the Public Health Engineering Department, according to a communiqué.
Secretary of Public Health Engineering Syed Aijaz Ali Shah briefed the meeting that a total of 2,529 RO and UF water purification plants have been installed under the Public Health Engineering (O&M) Wing. These include 2,032 RO units and 497 UF units.
In the Sukkur region, 527 plants have been installed, of which 354 are functional, reflecting a 67% operational rate. Shikarpur shows strong performance with 88% of its plants operational, while Jacobabad reports only 46%.
The Shaheed Benazirabad region has 1,329 plants, but only 445 are functional, resulting in a 33% operational rate. Tharparkar, which has the highest number of plants at 832, has only 101 functional — a mere 12% operational rate. By contrast, Mirpurkhas leads with 98% functionality. The Hyderabad region has 673 plants, of which 462 are functional, reflecting a 69% rate. Districts such as Badin, Thatta, and Tando Muhammad Khan are performing well, while Jamshoro lags with only 30 out of 113 plants functional — a 27% rate.