Daily Times

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has launched a campaign to check and disconnect illegal water connections from its areas. It has disconnected more than 180 illegal water connections while four truckload goods of encroachers have also been confiscated.

According to a RCB spokesman, water connections had been disconnected in Naseerabad, Kamalabad, Gawalmandi, Allama Iqbal Colony, Tench Bhatta, Saddar and Westridge areas.

The residents have been warned that stern action would be taken along with the imposition of heavy fines against those would be found indulging in any such practice in future.

Special teams had also been formed to check illegal connections, he added.

He said, the RCB had also confiscated four truckload goods from different markets in its operation against encroachments.

The operation, on the instruction of Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Saima Shah, has been intensified and efforts are being made to make the RCB areas encroachment free, he added.

He informed that the operation is being conducted on a daily basis while permanent and temporary encroachments were being removed, he infomed.

He also said that encroachments were removed from Saddar, Bank Road, Kashmir Road, Misrial Road, Tench Bhatta, Chungi No. 22 and other areas.

The shopkeepers have been warned not to encroach roadside space and keep their goods inside the shops otherwise strict action in accordance with the law would be taken against them.