The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has launched several projects to ensure supply of drinking water to the residents. Photo by Ikram Junaidi/File
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has launched several projects to ensure supply of drinking water to the residents.
About Rs495 million have been earmarked for different projects, including repair and maintenance of water pipelines, tubewells, tankers as well as replacement and installation of pipelines.
After the resignation of Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz, the CDA had decided to restore “Islamabad the Beautiful.” Moreover, in October the civic agency also took control of four directorates of the Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) - environment, sanitation, water and engineering along with the Machinery Pool Organisation, streetlights and market roads.
Notify rules of business for MCI in a week, SC tells govt
National
December 15, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) Monday directed the federal government to notify within a week, the rules of business, drafted by a committee, constituted by the Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI), and submit the compliance report before it.
The court took strong exception to non-functioning of the local government (LG) system in the federal capital and observed that the government would not be allowed to interfere in the matters of people’s fundamental rights.
A five-member apex court larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankehl and Justice Muneeb Akhtar, heard the suo moto notice case regarding environmental pollution in Islamabad s Sector I-9 industrial area.