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Private water tanker owners exploiting water shortage

RAWALPINDI: Private water tanker owners have increased the rate of water tankers in the Cantonment (Cantt) areas and are exploiting the area’s severe water shortage. People said water tanker rates had increased by Rs 100-150 and now one tanker was priced at around Rs 400-500. They said the Cantt Board did not provide them with water but collected money regularly, causing great inconvenience to them. They demanded the Cantt Board to ensure the provision of water and end the water tanker owners’ monopoly.

Tax exemption on 5 marla houses demanded: Allama Iqbal colony residents have demanded the Cantonment (Cantt) Board to exempt tax on five marla houses as directed by the Punjab government.

They said the government had exempted taxes on five-marla houses but they were still paying tax to the Cantt Board.

‘Potohar Town to be made a model town’: The Potohar Town will be made a model town in Rawalpindi district by initiating development projects in all union councils without discrimination, said Potohar Town Nazim Hamid Nawaz Raja.

Addressing nazims and naib nazims of various union councils, he said that revolutionary steps would be taken for Potohar Town’s development. He said 14 tractor trolleys had been purchased for the town’s cleanliness, adding that in the first phase, every union council would get one tractor trolley each, with the remaining on standby. He said in the second phase, all the union councils would get two tractor trolleys each.

Raja directed union council nazims to ensure that garbage is dumped at specific points so it can be collected by the city district government’s sanitary staff.

Acting headmasters allowed to use Education Promotion Fund: The district government’s Educational Monitoring Committee has approved the decision to allow acting headmasters to utilise the Education Promotion Fund for the betterment of schools. The decision was taken in a special Monitoring Committee meeting chaired by Committee Chairman Rab Nawaz. Earlier, only permanent headmasters were allowed to utilise the fund for the school building’s maintenance and to buy furniture and stationary, but the rule deprived many schools of basic necessities, as around 70 percent schools did not have permanent headmasters. online

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