Sawera Zahir,
Rawalpindi: The monthly Board meeting of Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) was held here on Monday, which was presided over by its president Brigadier Shehzad Tanvir.
The meeting was attended by RCB’s executive officer Sabteen Raza, vice president Malik Maneer Ahmed, Assistant secretary Qaisar Mehmood and several others. The meeting besides discussing in detail the agenda items, reviewed the over all progress on different schemes. The meeting also discussed income and expenditures of the RCB and approved medical bills of the RCB employees, and approved construction of CB schools in West ridge.
Spokesman of Cantonment Board Rawalpindi Qaisar Mehmood has said that RCB’s anti-encroachment drive was in full swing in the Cantt area. During the operation the spokesman said that the anti-encroachment team had demolished nearly 400 illegally constructed sheds saying that notices have also been served to the owners warning them to remove encroachments without any further delay. Moreover, he said that 5 truck loads of different items including hand carts, tables, chairs have been seized from different vendors and shopkeepers who have illegally set up their stalls on pathways and roads in Dhoke Mustaqeem, Naseerabad, Tench Bata and surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, the spokesman said that over the past one month RCB’s food branch officials have taken severe action against various eateries, food-points for substandard cleanliness at their workplaces and operating without proper licenses. He said that during the operations show cause notices were issued to183 food points, five shops were sealed for operating without license, whereas penalty worth 215000 rupees was slapped on them for substandard cleanliness.
