{"id":83174,"date":"2022-01-19T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=83174"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:10:47","slug":"ict-asks-societies-establish-flooding-control-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ict-asks-societies-establish-flooding-control-rooms.html","title":{"rendered":"ICT asks societies to establish flooding control rooms ahead of rains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has instructed all housing societies in the capital to set up flood control rooms, arrange water pumping equipment, and station monitoring teams near before the start of the rainy season, in a notification issued on Monday (January 17). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/owners-inform-police-before-renting-house-in-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Owners required to inform police before renting house in Islamabad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development followed Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD)\u2019s forecast regarding expected rain spells from Tuesday to Thursday in Islamabad. Reportedly, while commenting on the notification No 14(1)-HC(G)\/2022-48, Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat stated to the media that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/f9-park-islamabad-museum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Islamabad <\/a>Administration and Metro Corporation Islamabad (MCI) have already established a control room with dedicated rescue teams, equipment, and heavy gear to deal with any type of scenario. The notice also recommended for societies to hire enough personnel to deal with any eventuality, including floods and rescue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/zone-4-vertical-developments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Islamabad Master Plan-2040: Zone 4 to feature vertical developments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also advised that nullahs should be cleared of debris and other obstacles that may obstruct water flow during heavy rains. The societies were told that if the provisions of the letter were not carefully obeyed, serious actions will be taken against them for negligence, and a fine will be imposed. It is worth noting that owing to the blockage of Nullah in E-11 during a rainstorm in July of last year, two people perished and several homes were destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has instructed all housing societies in the capital to set up flood control rooms, arrange water pumping equipment, and station monitoring teams near before the start of the rainy season, in a notification issued on Monday (January 17). Read: Owners required to inform police before renting house in Islamabad The development followed Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD)\u2019s forecast regarding expected rain spells from Tuesday to Thursday in Islamabad. Reportedly, while commenting on the notification No 14(1)-HC(G)\/2022-48, Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat stated to the media that the Islamabad Administration and Metro Corporation Islamabad (MCI) have already established a control room with dedicated rescue teams, equipment, and heavy gear to deal with any type of scenario. The notice also recommended for societies to hire enough personnel to deal with any eventuality, including floods and rescue. Read: Islamabad Master Plan-2040: Zone 4 to feature vertical developments It also advised that nullahs should be cleared of debris and other obstacles that may obstruct water flow during heavy rains. The societies were told that if the provisions of the letter were not carefully obeyed, serious actions will be taken against them for negligence, and a fine will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":71589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[50616],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-ict-asks-societies-to-establish-flooding-control-rooms-ahead-of-rains","10":"cat-15016-id","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>ICT asks societies to establish flooding control rooms - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has instructed all housing societies in the capital to set up flood control rooms, arrange\" \/>\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\/ict-asks-societies-establish-flooding-control-rooms.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICT asks societies to establish flooding control rooms - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has instructed all housing societies in the capital to set up flood control rooms, arrange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ict-asks-societies-establish-flooding-control-rooms.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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