In this file photo, Mayor retired Col Mubashir addresses a district assembly session on the Town Hall lawns. White Star/File
LAHORE: The Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) administration on Tuesday again locked offices after the Lord Mayor reached there to perform duty following release of a detailed judgment of March 25 order by the apex court regarding restoration of the local institutions across Punjab.
However, Mayor retired Col Mubashir Javed conducted his office in a veranda of Town Hall and assigned the deputy mayors with the task to visit sacrificial animals’ sale points / markets in the city and ensure implementation of the Covid-19 SOPs by animal buyers and sellers, staff etc.
LAHORE: The district assembly on Thursday decided to issue show-cause notices to various officials of the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Discipline and Accountability (Peeda) Act for not obeying the lawful orders of the elected local bodies’ representatives, whose offices were restored by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on March 25 this year.
The assembly members, in a session convened by the speaker, Deputy Mayor, Nazir Ahmad Khan Swati, in the presence of the leader of the house, Lahore Mayor retired Col Mubashir Javed, also unanimously decided to approach the Punjab chief secretary and the local government department secretary, asking them to issue show-cause notices to the officers of the department posted in the MCL as municipal officers (MOs) and the chief corporation officer, under the Peeda Act.
LAHORE: A civil court has suspended several tenders of different construction works issued by the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore allegedly in violation of a Supreme Court’s judgement.
The court passed the stay order on a petition filed by former lord mayor retired Col Mubashar Javed challenging the legality of the tenders issued by the corporation.
On behalf of the petitioner, Advocate Awais Khalid contended that his client was elected Lahore’s mayor in an election under Punjab Local Government Act 2013 held during 2015-16 for a term of five years.
He said the government dissolved the local government system in 2019, however, the Supreme Court restored the same in March 2021. The respondent corporation advertised the tenders for different construction works in the city after the decision of the apex court.
Half of city’s public toilets shut
High expenditure blamed for discontinuation of facility in past two years
The number of public toilets in the city should have been doubled in view of the increasing population and number of regular commuters. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Despite the population of the provincial capital increasing to about 15 million, the number of public toilets operating in the city has dropped in recent years.
The metropolitan corporation has failed to build new public toilets, while 12 out of the 25 facilities present earlier have been closed during the past two years because of high expenses. The population of Lahore is estimated to have risen to about 15 million, of whom about three million travel in the city daily.