ISLAMABAD: The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) will launch the biggest-ever Ramazan relief package on Saturday.
The package consists of subsidy on 19 essential items, including wheat flour, sugar, ghee, rice, cooking oil, pulses, white gram, dates, tetra pack milk, tea, spices and gram flour. Besides, the USC is offering hefty discounts on more than 1,500 products.
Under the relief package, a 20-kilogram bag of wheat flour will be available for Rs800, sugar for Rs68 per kg and ghee for Rs170 per kg. Subsidy on black tea will be Rs50 per kg, on oil Rs20 per litre, on pulses from Rs15 to Rs30 per kg, on white gram Rs25 per kg, on dates Rs20 and on rice Rs10-12 per kg.
ISLAMABAD: The city managers of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Thursday decided that they will jointly use a new landfill site to be built near Chakwal.
The decision was taken in a meeting held here with Minister for Planning Asad Umar in the chair.
“The meeting also decided that the CDA and RDA would sign an MoU for joint use of waste disposal facilities for the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of Planning after the meeting.
The meeting was attended by Chief Commissioner Islamabad and CDA Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed, Commissioner Rawalpindi Mohammad Mehmood, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on CDA Affairs Ali Nawaz Awan, MNA Raja Khurram Nawaz and others.
ISLAMABAD: Having spearheaded public awareness campaign regarding ban on polythene bags and its harmful environmental impacts, Minister of State Zartaj Gul Wazir on Tuesday warned citizens to shun manufacturing, selling and using polythene bags or face huge fines and confiscations.
“Experiences have shown that the use of polythene bags has already played havoc with environment, natural ecosystems and public health. We no longer afford and tolerate manufacturing, sale, import and use of the environmental nuisance anymore,” she said while talking to media after sending off polythene bags ban enforcement teams to various business centres of the capital city.
She said those who did not shun the use of polythene bags despite sufficient availability of alternative bags at affordable prices were actually foes of the people and environment.
The city managers are considering setting up Islamabad’s first ever landfill site in Mandra instead of Sangjani following objections from locals. Ishaq Chaudhry/File
ISLAMABAD: The city managers are considering setting up the capital’s first ever landfill site in Mandra instead of Sangjani following objections from locals.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) had planned the landfill site in Sangjani but during a public hearing conducted by Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) last month, people living in the adjoining areas, including B-17, raised objections and requested the agency to relocate the site to protect them from its hazardous impact.