NA panel discusses QAU encroachments
Islamabad
February 24, 2021
Islamabad: The National Assembly Sub-Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training on Tuesday reviewed the issue of encroachments in the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
Chaired by MNA Hamid Hameed, the committee meeting was informed by Vice Chancellor of the Quaid-i-Azam University Dr Muhammad Ali that the Capital Development Authority (CDA) had tried to demolish illegal shops in the university but they re driven away by students.
The committee directed the VC to hold a meeting with the students to find out a peaceful solution to the issue.
It also asked the VC to launch a campaign on social media regarding the issue and decided that it will hold the next meeting in the QAU.
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Public sensitisation, awareness against plastic bags stressed
Islamabad
February 13, 2021
Islamabad : The role of social responsibility and better public sensitisation and awareness is vital to the elimination of the use of polythene bags, an environmental nuisance, say officials and environmental experts.
They, however, insist that unless people show responsibility towards environmental protection through various means, no effort for tackling environmental degradation will succeed.
Addressing a public awareness rally attended by students and academia at the International Islamic University here on Friday, joint secretary of the climate change ministry Syed Mujtaba Hussain said the widespread use of polythene bags had deepened the country’s burden of environmental degradation, which had worsened the state of public health.
From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change has warned. Dawn/File
ISLAMABAD: From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change warned on Friday.
“Anyone found using selling or manufacturing them will face a fine,” said Joint Secretary Syed Mujtaba Hussain of the ministry, who is leading the implementation of the ban on polythene bags.
Speaking at a public awareness rally attended by students and academia at the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), he said from next month there would be a strict check on the use, sale and manufacturing of the single-use plastic bags.