RAWALPINDI: Since the Rawalpindi Garbage Management Company was unable to take possession of the land after paying the tax department Rs. 900 million, the building of a new waste disposal facility for the twin cities on Mandra-Chakwal Road has come to a standstill.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Rawalpindi Trash Management Company (RWMC) had previously signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a waste disposal dump site.
The initiative was also aimed to lessen pollution by generating 18 megawatts of electricity from solid trash and the CDA would get 400 Kanal of land from the RWMC for the waste site.
Furthermore, 1,265 Kanal of land on the Mandra Chakwal Road in the communities of Bagnial, Dera Pothi, and Sahang in the Gujjar Khan Tehsil have been bought for this purpose.
As per the sources, the site is almost 6 kilometers downhill from GT Road on Mandra Chakwal Road and 55 kilometers from the city, however, because the RWMC did not secure control of the property, no progress has been made on the project.
Besides, the RWMC collects 850 tonnes of solid waste daily from Rawalpindi and the surrounding area for which all the existing sites are almost landfill.
Hasnain Ahmed, the general manager of operations at RWMC, said that RWMC had not yet been given control of the aforementioned land and that they were having trouble starting construction.
He said that a shredder with a daily capacity of 18 megawatts would be built as soon as the RWMC gained possession of the area.
The recycling process, on the other hand, produces green waste that may be used as fertilizer. The solid waste recycling facility will also help to lessen environmental pollution.
The civic agency is forced to dump rubbish in the undeveloped I-12 area, where the CDA has already given hundreds of plots and wants to start development in the coming months, since the capital, which generates more than 600 tonnes of waste every day, lacks a permanent disposal site.
