Heaps of rubbish during Bhatta Chowk. PHOTO: EXPRESS
RAWALPINDI: The administration of Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) on Wednesday authorized a signing of a understanding with a landowner to obtain 150 kanals on a Chakri Road to dump plain waste. The plcae is around 18 kilometers divided from house areas.
The preference to obtain a land on lease for Rs220,000 per month was done during a monthly assembly of CCB. This is a initial time a house motionless to appoint an eccentric landfill site for rubbish disposal.
Currently, hundreds of tons of rubbish are being collected from CCB areas on a daily basis. They are carried to a site during Losar landfill site in Rawat that is used by a Rawalpindi district government.
A comparison CCB central pronounced a house assembly did not have any growth intrigue on a bulletin as it faced financial constraints.
The other stairs authorized by a house enclosed a sustenance of seat for 3 schools, medicines for a CCB dispensary, construction of an subterraneous H2O tank during Lalkurti and maps for residential buildings.
As distant as a new landfill site is concerned, a house had to make deals possibly with a district supervision or Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) for a ordering of rubbish collected from opposite areas.
When contacted, CCB Executive Officer Rana Muhammad Rafique pronounced a devise to obtain a landfill site during Chakri Road was in a initial stages and a final preference was awaited. To a query, a executive officer pronounced negotiations with Rawalpindi Solid Waste Management Company were also in initial stages.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
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