{"id":56117,"date":"2019-10-09T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56117"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:28:22","slug":"wasa-to-cut-sewerage-connections-of-defaulters-in-gujranwala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-cut-sewerage-connections-of-defaulters-in-gujranwala.html","title":{"rendered":"WASA to cut sewerage connections of defaulters in Gujranwala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) Gujranwala has finalized its plan to recover PKR 1 billion from defaulters of sewerage bills by cutting their sewerage lines, a news source reported. According to WASA, over 250,000 people in Gujranwala do not pay their sewerage bills.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-gujranwala-gets-pkr-150-mn-for-repair-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WASA Gujranwala gets PKR 150 mn for repair works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASA Gujranwala offers sewerage services to around 2.3 million people in the city and charges PKR 180 per household on a quarterly basis, even though only 5% of these citizens pay their bills. This has amounted to pending bill payments of over PKR 1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/operation-resumed-against-illegal-housing-schemes-in-gujranwala.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation resumed against illegal housing schemes in Gujranwala<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now WASA is planning on launching a crackdown against these bill defaulters. They will start by severing the sewerage connections to the localities where the bill-recovery ratio is comparatively low. WASA officials have made it clear that they will not ask each household individually to clear their pending bills, \u00a0but will instead terminate their sewerage connection till people pay up.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/landfill-site-purchased-to-dump-gujranwalas-solid-waste.html\">Landfill site purchased to dump Gujranwala\u2019s solid waste<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, WASA has sent several notices to defaulters in the past to clear their pending dues, however they have failed to make any recoveries so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) Gujranwala has finalized its plan to recover PKR 1 billion from defaulters of sewerage bills by cutting their sewerage lines, a news source reported. According to WASA, over 250,000 people in Gujranwala do not pay their sewerage bills. Read:\u00a0WASA Gujranwala gets PKR 150 mn for repair works WASA Gujranwala offers sewerage services to around 2.3 million people in the city and charges PKR 180 per household on a quarterly basis, even though only 5% of these citizens pay their bills. This has amounted to pending bill payments of over PKR 1 billion. Read:\u00a0Operation resumed against illegal housing schemes in Gujranwala Now WASA is planning on launching a crackdown against these bill defaulters. They will start by severing the sewerage connections to the localities where the bill-recovery ratio is comparatively low. WASA officials have made it clear that they will not ask each household individually to clear their pending bills, \u00a0but will instead terminate their sewerage connection till people pay up. Read:\u00a0Landfill site purchased to dump Gujranwala\u2019s solid waste Reportedly, WASA has sent several notices to defaulters in the past to clear their pending dues, however they have failed to make any recoveries so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":53289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13353],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-56117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-wasa-to-cut-sewerage-connections-of-defaulters-in-gujranwala"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WASA to cut sewerage connections of defaulters in Gujranwala - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) Gujranwala has finalized its plan to recover PKR 1 billion from defaulters of sewerage bills by\" \/>\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-to-cut-sewerage-connections-of-defaulters-in-gujranwala.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WASA to cut sewerage connections of defaulters in Gujranwala - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gujranwala: The Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) Gujranwala has finalized its plan to recover PKR 1 billion from defaulters of sewerage bills by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-cut-sewerage-connections-of-defaulters-in-gujranwala.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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