LAHORE: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) board of directors approved company’s annual budget of Rs13.902 billion for the fiscal year of 2016-17.

The board meeting was presided over by chairman Mehr Ishtiaq Ahmad and attended by members Ahmad Rafay Alam, Dr Nasir

Javed, Aslam Javed, Khawaja Imran Nazir, Javed Masood and Khuram Rohail Asghar. LWMC Managing Director Nusrat Tufail Gill was also present.

According to a spokesman for the LWMC, Rs6.694 billion will be spent on operational expenditures and Rs2.028 billion on capital expenditures.

The budget also allocated Rs3.911 billion for direct labour cost and Rs539 million for head office expenditures. Up to Rs15 million will be for non-capital expenditures. Moreover, the budget allocated Rs715 million for the treatment and disposal project at Lakhodair, Rs50 million for the material recycling facility at the Sundar area, and Rs27.7 million for the improvement and rehabilitation of Mahmood Booti dump site.

The budget also included expenditures for the construction of two cells at the sanitary landfill site of Lakhodair.

The budget allocations are Rs1 billion more than last year’s budget due to the expansion of LWMC’s services to the whole city, particularly to cooperative housing societies. The areas of Cantonment and railways do not still come under the jurisdiction of the LWMC.

PFA: Punjab Food Authority teams sealed on Friday MN Traders (a biscuits manufacturing unit) in Iqbal Town’s Khyber Block and Al Madina Hotel in Sanda for flouting hygiene standards.

According to a spokesperson, the teams also sealed Mashallah Soda Water, Javid Sweets’ production unit, Ghulam Mustafa Store, Nafees Sweets and Special Bakery in Shalamar, Kamahan, Barkat Market and Harbanspura.

The officials also imposed a fine on Citi Bread’s production unit, Talib Hotel and Aroosa Marriage Hall.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2016