Tag: MCI

PTI wants Islamabad mayor gone over ‘poor performance’

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) leadership in the federal capital is planning to approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for removal of Islamabad Mayor Sheikh...

MCI to release Rs6.5m for sanitary workers

ISLAMABAD: The Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) was expected to release an amount of over 6.5 million rupees by the next weekend to pay...

MCI sanitary workers vulnerable to exploitation

ISLAMABAD: Private sanitary workers, collecting domestic solid waste from different sectors of the federal capital on daily basis, claim they are being exploited by...

MCI all set to drop service charges bombshell on citizens

ISLAMABAD: The Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) has decided to scale up service charges in order to  increase its revenue. Earlier, the MCI administration had increased...

Will special assistant on CDA salvage embattled, inefficient civic agency?

-Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz says that Capital has little to gain from intra-organisational strife ISLAMABAD: With the recently elected Member National Assembly (MNA) Ali Nawaz...

Denizens, business community suffer while MCI, CDA rifts deepen

-markets inundated with encroachments desperately await city managers attention  ISLAMABAD: The infighting between Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) has left the...

CDA, MCI allegedly allot weekly bazaars stalls to blue-eyed persons  

ISLAMABAD: The high-ups of Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) have illegitimately allotted a number of stalls of CDA weekly bazaars...

Ad-hocism is order of the day at CDA’s Engineering Wing

Civic agency avoids recruitment of engineers for past many years ISLAMABAD: Years of reliance on stop-gap arrangements, ad-hocism, non-technical personnel mounting positions that demand technical...

Senate body calls briefing by FGH officials against facts

Senators also point out CDA, MCI negligence over a land record ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) expressing serious reservations...

Over 0.5m trees to be planted in capital: mayor

ISLAMABAD: Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz has said that around 500,000 saplings in different areas of the federal capital are being planted during the tree plantation...

MCI members decry undue interference, delays by CDA

Members also hit out at Interior Ministry, district admin to create hurdles ISLAMABAD: The 26th meeting of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) was dominated by...

Trash in water courses endangering eco-system

Private housing societies dump heaps of trash regularly near Korang river ISLAMABAD: Against the silhouette of British-era picket manning the craggy green hills at considerable...

Capital in complete neglect as city managers take a nap

Sanitation, water supply, slums and other issues of service delivery haunt Islamabad ISLAMABAD: While the monsoon season is all set to conclude, the parks and...

New committee formed to handle CDA, MCI assets division as tussle...

Top bureaucrats were unable to resolve the ongoing tussle between the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) prompting the authorities...

Assets division between CDA, MCI a challenge for new govt

New ruling elite will have to create a balance between two civic agencies to run affairs smoothly ISLAMABAD: The new government, which will take reign...

PTI vows to strengthen ‘toothless’ MCI

Metropolitan corporation failes to resolve people’s woes amid tussle with CDA ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after bagging all three seats from the Capital...

MCI, CDA at loggerheads over transfer, postings

ISLAMABAD: In what seems like a never-ending battle for resources and power, both CDA and the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad have again locked horns over powers...