Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatha has instructed the director general of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) to issue show-cause notices to housing societies without a designated dumping site to explain where they dispose of their waste, it emerged on Tuesday.
The commissioner said that the Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) should enter into a contract with the housing societies – around 74 in the division – to facilitate the dumping of waste at the Losar landfill site.
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Otherwise, their registrations would be cancelled.
He also instructed the RWMC to identify another landfill site, where another transfer station can be constructed.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 8th, 2023.
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