{"id":82354,"date":"2021-12-18T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=82354"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:07:00","slug":"wasa-outstanding-bills-1-5-bn-housing-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-outstanding-bills-1-5-bn-housing-schemes.html","title":{"rendered":"WASA to recover outstanding bills worth PKR 1.5 bn from housing schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The data collected by Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore revealed a total of PKR 1.5 billion owed in terms of outstanding dues towards private and cooperative housing societies for using the agency\u2019s services, news sources reported on Thursday (December 16). The defaulter list includes at least 74 housing developments, the majority of which are located on Multan Road and Raiwind Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-proposed-hike-in-augmentation-surcharges-for-commercial-buildings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WASA proposed hike in \u2018Augmentation surcharges\u2019 for commercial buildings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the reports, under government laws, societies that use the drains and the WASA-managed sewage systems must pay service costs. However, private and cooperative housing schemes have been negligent in paying their outstanding dues, which totalled PKR 1.7 billion, of which, the societies have only paid PKR 260 million so far. Following is a breakdown of the outstanding amount;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PKR 999 million are pending towards 33 private housing societies connected with the WASA sewerage system\u00a0<\/li><li>PKR 344 million pending towards 19 cooperative housing societies connected with the WASA sewerage system\u00a0<\/li><li>PKR 354 million is pending towards 18 cooperative housing societies connected with WASA\u2019s Satto Katla Drain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>PKR 55.4 million pending towards four private housing schemes connected with WASA\u2019s Satto Katla Drain\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-rwp-650-mn-assets-relocation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WASA RWP asks for PKR 650 mn for assets relocation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>WASA Managing Director (MD) Syed Zahid Aziz told the media that the agency has devised a strategy to collect the unpaid payments. Following the initial warnings and notices, WASA will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-wasa-disconnect-illegal-connections.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"79441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disconnect connections<\/a> and work with the Metropolitan Planning Wing to stop the approval of maps of these defaulter societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The data collected by Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore revealed a total of PKR 1.5 billion owed in terms of outstanding dues towards private and cooperative housing societies for using the agency\u2019s services, news sources reported on Thursday (December 16). The defaulter list includes at least 74 housing developments, the majority of which are located on Multan Road and Raiwind Road.\u00a0 Read: WASA proposed hike in \u2018Augmentation surcharges\u2019 for commercial buildings According to the reports, under government laws, societies that use the drains and the WASA-managed sewage systems must pay service costs. However, private and cooperative housing schemes have been negligent in paying their outstanding dues, which totalled PKR 1.7 billion, of which, the societies have only paid PKR 260 million so far. Following is a breakdown of the outstanding amount;&nbsp;&nbsp; PKR 999 million are pending towards 33 private housing societies connected with the WASA sewerage system\u00a0 PKR 344 million pending towards 19 cooperative housing societies connected with the WASA sewerage system\u00a0 PKR 354 million is pending towards 18 cooperative housing societies connected with WASA\u2019s Satto Katla Drain.\u00a0\u00a0 PKR 55.4 million pending towards four private housing schemes connected with WASA\u2019s Satto Katla Drain\u00a0 Read: WASA RWP asks for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[50068,50067,50066],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-private-societies-to-pay-wasa","9":"tag-wasa-lahore-fine","10":"tag-wasa-to-recover-outstanding-bills-worth-pkr-1-5-bn-from-housing-schemes","11":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WASA to recover bills worth PKR 1.5 bn from housing sch- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The data collected by Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore revealed a total of PKR 1.5 billion owed in terms of outstanding dues towards\" \/>\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-outstanding-bills-1-5-bn-housing-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WASA to recover bills worth PKR 1.5 bn from housing sch- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The data collected by Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore revealed a total of PKR 1.5 billion owed in terms of outstanding dues towards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-outstanding-bills-1-5-bn-housing-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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