Islamabad: The Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) has approved the proposal for charging a garbage collection fee per household in the capital city, a news source reported. The civic body has formed a sub-committee that would prepare the recommendations for this purpose.
The sub-committee will complete the paperwork required to impose the fee, and present a report during the next IMC meeting. IMC has issued a week’s time to the committee for preparing their recommendations. Once they provide their approval, the fees will go into immediate effect.
As per sources, the federal government had instructed IMC to bear the expenses to maintain the cleanliness of Islamabad. They added that some village Union Councils (UCs) already collect a fee of PKR 300 per household, and that administrations of private housing societies in the city also charge their residents for the same purpose.
IMC plans to charge the garbage collection fee according to different slabs, which will differentiate between larger and smaller houses. Sources revealed that IMC was expected to charge houses of up to five marlas a fee of PKR 300, while the corporation would charge PKR 2,000 from houses covering a 4-kanal area.
