Nullahs and streams flowing through Islamabad have become dumping stations owing to negligence on the part of Capital Development Authority (CDA). Capital Development Authority seems negligent over the issues of piling up of waste along the Nullahs. The concerned department which collects debris from such sites are not contributing their efforts.
Slum dwellers and people living nearby have been throwing wastes along the running water for years. Concerned authorities have never devised any law to curtail the residents from such activities to keep the city clean. People connected their drainage pipes directly into the Nullahs.
Dumped wastes pose threat to health of the slum dwellers and the people inhabited in the areas living near slums.
Locals demanded for instant action from the concerned CDA authorities to make the city clean. Parking plaza instigates dispute between TMA, RDA: Public transport stand at Fawara chowk in Raja Bazaar has sparked a row between the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and Tehsil
Municipal Administration (TMA) Rawal Town.
The dispute between RDA and TMA aroused over the matter of parking fee implementation. On knowing the matter, District Coordination Officer Rawalpindi Saqib Zafar convened meeting of both departments on February 13.
The contract of 1st Parking Plaza was auctioned in more than Rs. 5.6 million. Around six hundred vehicles can be parked at a time in a six-floor building.
According to the contract, it was said that no vehicle would be parked in 500 yards area of the plaza. The parking plaza became congested after the Suzuki Vehicles’ Stand was shifted into its basement.
The sequence of parking the vehicles along the edges of the Liaqat road, City Saddar road, Raja Bazar road, Ganj Mandi road, Kashmir Bazar road and Trunk Bazar road is in practice as a routine task. TMA Rawal Town is collecting parking fee from the transporters. Contract deliverers as well as the contract acquirers showed displeasure over TMA’s charging parking fee.
RDA decided to charge Rs. 20 per hour and Rs. 50 from those transporters leaving their vehicle in the parking lot for the whole day. Contract acquirers showed annoyance over the shifting of public transport in the plaza because the respective action is against the agreement.
