In an age of advanced technologies to recycle garbage and generate energy, the federal capital still lacks a permanent landfill site to scientifically dump trash for ensuring clean and green environment .
For the last four decades, the civic agency had proposed several areas including Kuri landfill to permanently dump the garbage in the city but the waste is still being dumped in a residential area of I-12 sector.
Last year, the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) had selected a location near Sangjani to set up the facility on permanent basis due to its suitable topography but it could not even initiate the construction work on the site due to official hiccups.
The IMC had forwarded the tender last week to the competent authorities for hiring eight private consultants to formulate Environment Assessment Impact (EAI) report on the Sangjani but was not processed due to high cost, an official source in the corporation told APP.
The corporation, he said would again open technical and financial bids for the purpose and hoped that the MCI would be able to float the tender after completing the formal process.—APP
