KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has disconnected free water supply to Governor House and Chief Minister House owing to millions of rupees outstanding against them.

This was stated by KWSB Managing Director Misbahuddin Fareed during a meeting of the Sindh Assembly`s Public Accounts Committee held in the assembly building on Thursday.

The meeting, presided over by Saleem Raza Jalbani, was reviewing the audit report for financial year 2010-11 of the KWSB.

The KWSB chief informed the committee that there were outstanding dues of billions of rupees for nonpayment of water charges by Governor House, Chief Minister House, speaker, deputy speaker, federal and provincial institutions` elected representatives.

The PAC chief appreciated the `improvement` in the working of the water board and said: `We hope that the board will continue to make its efforts to improve its recovery as well.

The board chief also said that although the meeting of the board of governors ought to be held every month, except the last meeting, which was convened a few days back, during the last six years not a single meeting was held.

However, now it was being ensured that the BoG must meet every month, he added.

Later, talking to the media, he said that he had never claimed that there was no corruption in the KWSB, which could also have certain defects and weaknesses like other government institutions, which needed to be addressed so that the water board could deliver to the people in a better way by mitigating their difficulties.