Mayor, CDA chairman join hands to resolve environmental issues.

ISLAMABAD -- The federal capital's environmental issues are finally being addressed, thanks to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

In the backdrop of a recent hearing in Supreme Court regarding the environmental issues of Islamabad, the Mayor of Islamabad Sheikh Anser and CDA chairman Amir Ahmad Ali finally met to give the residents of the capital a healthy environment to live.

According to details, right after when the Supreme Court summoned the mayor of Islamabad and the chairman of CDA in environmental pollution case, a meeting was held secretively between the two respective officials.

The discussion was held on two aspects, clearance of the nullahs of the capital as well as identification of sites for establishment of public toilets. In the meeting between the two, it was also decided to outsource public toilets in order to improve their standard and condition.

A proper plan is being prepared for the implementation of both clearance of nullahs and the establishment of public toilets on different sites of Islamabad which have also been identified already. The plan to mitigate the effects of pollution is expected to be presented within a week whereas its execution is likely to start from this month.

It is likely that a comprehensive plan will be presented between a week and within this month, work is likely to start. Public toilets will also be outsourced.

Lately, the Supreme Court summoned the Mayor Municipal Corporation Islamabad and Chairman Capital Development Authority to appear before the court in environmental pollution case on Thursday.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah heard the suo-moto notice case regarding environmental pollution in Islamabad.

After the apex court of Islamabad summoned the mayor and CDA chairman for the hearing of a pollution case of the capital, the MCI and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) finally seem to be coping with each other to resolve the issues of the capital.

Exclusively talking with The Nation, the mayor also confessed that owing to the meeting after the hearing of the apex court, MCI and CDA have joined hands to resolve the issue of nullahs and other related problems occurring in Islamabad. He briefed that funds were being raised by the CDA for the cleaning of nullahs and for public toilets, MCI had recognised the sites which needed public toilet facility and had given it to CDA for...