RAWALPINDI: Third party will audit Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) accounts.

Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Muhamamd Ali Randhawa on Friday asked the company to hire a private firm to audit its account. He gave these directives during the board of directors meeting of the company.

The deputy commissioner appointed Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue Behzad Adil as managing director of the company and transfer Rizwan Sherdil as manager of the company till the completion of the audit.

Mr Randhawa expressed dissatisfaction over the rent of the company’s head office building and directed to shift its offices to the place available on relatively less rent.

Sources privy to the meeting told Dawn that the meeting of the board of directors was held after the gap of one and a half year.

They said that there were many issues like procurement of land for the landfill site in Gujar Khan by the company on extra payment came under discussion.

They said the company procured 2,447 kanals but the extra payment was made which was not included in the deal. They said the audit of the utilisation of funds would be made soon.

They said the problems in existing landfill site was also discussed where the local residents expressed their resentments over dumping of garbage and demanded the shifting it site to new place.

They said that the deputy commissioner had directed the officials to present all the financial matters in the board meeting for approval and without its approval, no fund would be utilized.

When contacted, Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Mohamamd Ali Randhawa said the external auditors would be appointed for the company audit.

He said he asked the RWMC to start plantation drive at Losar landfill site to minimize the environmental degradation.

He said the plantation drive by the company could provide better environment to the local residents.

He said new managing director had been appointed in the company to look after the affairs.

He said local government had been requested to streamline things in the company so it could effectively work in the city areas.

The deputy commissioner said though the sanitation situation in the city areas was comparatively better, there was a need to address the narrow streets in the downtown areas.

He said that he had asked the company to collect garbage from narrow streets on rickshaw trolleys where heavy vehicles could not go.

Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2019