Garbage heap at Korang Nullah along Expressway irritates motorists

Islamabad
Nauseating smell arising from garbage heap at Korang Nullah along the expressway is a constant irritant for motorists using this busiest road on daily basis.
Motorists are of the view that the Capital Development Authority (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 solid waste in an environment friendly manner.
Talking to this agency, they said sanitary workers and garbage collectors from different localities dump the filth in the Korang Nullah which can block its water flow and cause flash flood during the Monsoon season.
Locals said that no existing or upcoming housing society has a proper design or plan to construct a separate landfill site or incineration plant to dispose of solid waste produced on daily.
Ali Naqi, a government servant who daily commute between Rawat and Islamabad using the expressway said he and his colleagues have develop the habit of covering nose even sitting in car with closed windows while passing through the nullah.
He said it was beyond the understanding that why the department concerned was oblivious to the garbage heap which have negative impacts on environment and health.
Abdul Salam, a local said the dumping site had become a source of diseases and should be immediately shifted from there.
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 guests to reach his home in Kahuta.
When contacted a CDA official informed on Friday that the place of garbage dumping of the capital is on IJ Principal Road.
He said the garbage collectors of the Rawalpindi city are throwing garbage at Korang Nullah added several times CDA has complained to Rawalpindi Development Authority (RAD) about the issue but RDA did not take it seriously.
He also said that the civic bodies of Rawalpindi are collecting their garbage at night and they dump it at Korang in midnight instead of Rawat which is their real garbage dumping site.