{"id":62366,"date":"2020-03-06T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62366"},"modified":"2020-06-25T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:05:41","slug":"four-mini-dams-completed-rawalpindi-district-forests-control-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/four-mini-dams-completed-rawalpindi-district-forests-control-fires.html","title":{"rendered":"Four mini dams completed in Rawalpindi district forests to control campfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has initiated the development of mini dams in forests located in the Rawalpindi district to control fire accidents, a news source reported. As per the publication, four mini dams have already been completed \u2014 with the structures designed to store rainwater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kashmir-highway-islamabad-expressway-development-work-to-be-completed-soon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Kashmir Highway, Islamabad Expressway development work to be completed soon (opens in a new tab)\">Kashmir Highway, Islamabad Expressway development work to be completed soon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case of forest fires, the authorities concerned will use the water from the mini dams to extinguish fires, instead of bringing water from faraway places. Besides, to save the forests from accidental fires, the department has termed the time between April 16 and July 16 as \u2018fire season\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-announces-pkr-350-bn-annual-development-programme-2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt announces PKR 350 bn for Annual Development Programme 2020-21 (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt announces PKR 350 bn for Annual Development Programme 2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the fire season, the carrying and use of axes, matchboxes, and cigarette lighters etc. in the forests of Murree, Margala, Kotli Sattian, Kallar Sayedan, Kahota, Chakwal, and Jehlum have been banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lifting-construction-ban-promote-development-gwadar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lift on construction ban to make Gwadar hub of trade, development activities: ABAD (opens in a new tab)\">Lift on construction ban to make Gwadar hub of trade, development activities: ABAD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To improve security\nfurther, the forest guards will be provided with motorcycles, walkie talkies,\nuniforms, and munitions, while the most important forests will be supplied with\nclose circuit cameras. Moreover, additional mini dams will be built in the\nseven tehsils of Rawalpindi, and strict security will be maintained throughout\nthe fire season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has initiated the development of mini dams in forests located in the Rawalpindi district to control fire accidents, a news source reported. As per the publication, four mini dams have already been completed \u2014 with the structures designed to store rainwater. Read: Kashmir Highway, Islamabad Expressway development work to be completed soon In case of forest fires, the authorities concerned will use the water from the mini dams to extinguish fires, instead of bringing water from faraway places. Besides, to save the forests from accidental fires, the department has termed the time between April 16 and July 16 as \u2018fire season\u2019. Read: Punjab govt announces PKR 350 bn for Annual Development Programme 2020-21 During the fire season, the carrying and use of axes, matchboxes, and cigarette lighters etc. in the forests of Murree, Margala, Kotli Sattian, Kallar Sayedan, Kahota, Chakwal, and Jehlum have been banned. Read: Lift on construction ban to make Gwadar hub of trade, development activities: ABAD To improve security further, the forest guards will be provided with motorcycles, walkie talkies, uniforms, and munitions, while the most important forests will be supplied with close circuit cameras. Moreover, additional mini dams will be built in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":62374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15020],"tags":[7615,22121,6880,22123],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-forest-department","10":"tag-four-mini-dams","11":"tag-jehlum","12":"tag-to-control-fires","13":"cat-15181-id","14":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Four mini dams completed in Rawalpindi district forests - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has initiated the development of mini dams in forests located in the Rawalpindi district to control fire accidents\" \/>\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\/four-mini-dams-completed-rawalpindi-district-forests-control-fires.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four mini dams completed in Rawalpindi district forests - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has initiated the development of mini dams in forests located in the Rawalpindi district to control fire accidents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/four-mini-dams-completed-rawalpindi-district-forests-control-fires.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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