DC visits city areas to monitor situation after rain.

RAWALPINDI -- Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi Tahir Farooq here on Monday visited different areas of Rawalpindi city to monitor the situation after rain.

According to a district administration spokesman, the DC also checked the teams of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) and Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi (MCR) working in the field to clear stagnant rain water.

The spokesman informed that the DC during a visit here the other day also inspected machinery of WASA including de-watering sets, jetting and sucking machines and water boozers.

Tahir Farooq had also visited Gawalmandi area to review ongoing dredging and de-silting work started by WASA to clean Nullah Lai.

On the occasion, the DC was briefed that WASA had completed overhauling of all the operational machinery.

The cleaning work of Nullah Lai would also be completed soon as the Punjab government had provided a grant of Rs 30 million for Nullah Lai cleanliness work, he added.

WASA Rawalpindi was working to clean Nullah Lai from Katarian bridge to Gawalmandi area, he said.

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