ISLAMABAD: Garbage heap at Korang Nullah along the Expressway exposed the high claims of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to make the capital city clean and green. Disgusting smell produced by the garbage heap is a constant irritation for the residents and motorists using the road on daily basis. The Nullah near the Expressway is filled with garbage heap and concerned staff burns the garbage at the site and smoke of this garbage is pollluting the environment which is very much dangerous for the people. Residents of the area are of the view that the CDA and private housing societies on both sides of the Expressway are equally responsible for the unhygienic situation because they do not have appropriate facilities to dispose of the solid waste in an environment friendly manner. Residents and visitors of the area said that sanitary workers and garbage collectors from different localities dump filth in the Korang Nullah that sometimes block the flow of water causing floods especially during the monsoon season. Local residents said that no existing or upcoming housing society has a proper design or plan to construct a separate site or incineration plant to dispose of solid waste produced by the residents on daily basis. A government servant Ali Sultan who commutes between Rawat and federal capital using the Expressway every day said that his colleagues have developed the habit of covering their noses even while sitting in a car with closed windows passing through the area. He further said it is beyond our comprehension that why the department concerned is oblivious to the garbage heap that is having a negative impact on environment and health of the citizens. A local resident Abdul Salam said that the dumping site had become a source of diseases and should be shifted immediately. Malik Abid who received his guests coming from abroad at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport said, “He felt ashamed when passing through the nullah along with the guests to reach his home in Kahuta.” Health experts are of the view that such a huge pile of garbage could cause various dangerous diseases like dengue, hepatitis in the capital city.