RAWALPINDI: Water supply from Khanpur Dam will be suspended in several areas of the twin cities from Monday (today) till Feb 8 as dredging of a water channel from the dam to Sangjani filtration plant starts.
Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB), Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and Capital Development Authority (CDA) will jointly carry out dredging of the 19.5-km-long channel.
“We will provide water to residents through tankers in areas where water is supplied from Khanpur Dam,” said Wasa Managing Director Raja Shaukat Mehmood. He said the agency already had made a plan to provide water to eight localities that were supplied water from Khanpur Dam.
RCB collects over Rs866m in default payments
Trade licence and professional tax branch issues 3,050 notices
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January 28, 2021
RAWALPINDI:
The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has accelerated its ongoing campaign against defaulters of property tax, water charges, Transfer of Immovable Property (TIP) and trade taxes and collected over Rs866 million during the last seven months, a spokesperson shared on Wednesday.
The official mentioned that the board collected over Rs657 million in House Tax, Water and Conservancy charges, over Rs197 million in TIP taxes and over Rs12.7 million in Trade License Fee and Professional Taxes from defaulters.
The RCB teams on the directives of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Umar Farooq were in the process of conducting raids in different areas to take action against the defaulters.
In Rawalpindi, four patients breathed their last while 29 tested positive.
Naseem Akhtar, 69, a resident of Gulshanabad, Adiala, was shifted to Kulsoom International Hospital on Jan 8 where he died. Imtiaz Bibi, 57, a resident of Lala Rukh Colony in Taxila, had been under treatment at the Fauji Foundation Hospital since Dec 21 but could not survive and died on Friday night.
Abdul Haq, 70, from Wah Cantonment and Mohammad Hanif, 75, from Dhoke Mazharabad in Chaklala succumbed to the virus at Pims where they had been brought on Jan 8. Meanwhile, the district recorded 458 active patients with 86 under treatment in hospitals and 372 isolated in their homes. Moreover, 466 people are waiting for their test results.
RCB removes encroachments
January 10, 2021
Rawalpindi: Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) confiscated over 166 truckloads of goods under its grand operation aiming to make the RCB areas free of encroachments during 2020.
According to RCB spokesman, the grand the anti-encroachment operation, on the special instructions of Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO) was launched in which the anti-encroachment squad conducted 145 operations in different areas including Masrial Road, Chungi No 22, Saddar, Tench Bhatta, Chor, Peoples Colony, and Dhoke Syedan, Bakara Mandi, Masrial and several other areas in their jurisdiction and confiscated over 166 truckloads of goods.
The operation was being conducted on a daily basis while permanent and temporary encroachments are being removed with an aim to provide relief to citizens while visiting the markets, he added.
RAWALPINDI: The slow pace of work on the reconstruction of Adamjee Road by the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) is causing problems for commuters and visitors to the commercial area.
The civic body has dug up the road in Saddar, the commercial hub of cantonment areas, adding to the problems of the commuters and visitors to the markets.
Motorists find it difficult to drive on the road due to its bad condition. Traffic coming from Murree Road, Haider Road, Kashmir Road and other arteries gets choked around the congested area.
The road and its footpaths are being reconstructed at a cost of Rs37 million under the Shinning Saddar Project.