{"id":54807,"date":"2019-09-01T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54807"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:23:04","slug":"wasa-gujranwala-uncovers-65000-illegal-connections-issues-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-gujranwala-uncovers-65000-illegal-connections-issues-notices.html","title":{"rendered":"WASA Gujranwala uncovers 65,000 illegal connections, issues notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has uncovered 65,000 illegal water connections in the city, whose users owe the authority millions of rupees in unpaid utility bills \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on this discovery, the authority has issued notices to these individuals along with setting up teams to regularise their illegal connections and make bill recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mineral-water-companies-to-pay-wasa-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mineral water companies to pay WASA tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per the report, Chairman WASA Sheikh Amir Rehman has set a recovery target of PKR 250 million for this year; as opposed to the recovery target of PKR 82 million for the previous fiscal year. WASA Gujranwala has been facing a financial crisis like its counterpart in other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, total WASA connections in Gujranwala were thought to number about 135,000, but now that the illegal connections have been found, their number stands at 200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has uncovered 65,000 illegal water connections in the city, whose users owe the authority millions of rupees in unpaid utility bills \u2013 a news source reported. Following up on this discovery, the authority has issued notices to these individuals along with setting up teams to regularise their illegal connections and make bill recoveries. Read:\u00a0Mineral water companies to pay WASA tax As per the report, Chairman WASA Sheikh Amir Rehman has set a recovery target of PKR 250 million for this year; as opposed to the recovery target of PKR 82 million for the previous fiscal year. WASA Gujranwala has been facing a financial crisis like its counterpart in other cities. Previously, total WASA connections in Gujranwala were thought to number about 135,000, but now that the illegal connections have been found, their number stands at 200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":53289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12791],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-wasa-gujranwala-uncovers-65000-illegal-connections-issues-notices"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WASA Gujranwala uncovers 65,000 illegal connections, issues notices - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has uncovered 65,000 illegal water connections in the city, whose users owe the authority millions of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-gujranwala-uncovers-65000-illegal-connections-issues-notices.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WASA Gujranwala uncovers 65,000 illegal connections, issues notices - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has uncovered 65,000 illegal water connections in the city, whose users owe the authority millions of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-gujranwala-uncovers-65000-illegal-connections-issues-notices.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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