RCB Recovers Rs8 Mln Water Dues From Consumers

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RCB recovers Rs8 mln water dues from consumers

RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Sep, 2019 ) :Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) under its ongoing campaign against defaulters of water dues recovered over Rs8 million from the consumers during September.

According to RCB spokesman Qaiser Mahmood, the board on directives of Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO) Sibtain Raza launched a drive to recover water dues outstanding against the consumers and also snapped 71 water connections in different areas.

The water branch conducted operations in Tench Bhatta, Range Road, Bakra Mandi, Saddar, Westridge, Naseerabad and other areas.

He said that the water branch services were being improved to facilitate consumers and all the record had been computerised. Now, the consumers were getting computerized water bills, he added.

The spokesman further said that the RCB Public Facilitation Center of RCB, during August received 294 complaints regarding electricity, water supply and sanitation problems in the cantonment areas and resolved 140.

The RCB's public facilitation center received 93 complaints from the residents regarding electricity of which 45 were resolved, whereas out of 116 complaints regarding water supply 42 were resolved on urgent basis.

Similarly, out of 85 complaints lodged by the residents relating to sanitation, 53 were resolved during the period.

He informed, Sibtain Raza had issued special instructions to officials of RCB's Public Facilitation Center to facilitate the citizens and address their problems on urgent basis so as to provide better facilities to the residents.