{"id":43298,"date":"2026-03-10T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43298"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:04:33","slug":"pindi-undergoes-historic-sewerage-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43298","title":{"rendered":"Pindi undergoes historic sewerage upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For the first time in Rawalpindi&#8217;s history, a major project to overhaul the city&#8217;s sewerage system, costing Rs15 billion, has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is being carried out under the Punjab Chief Minister&#8217;s Development Programme, with large-scale development work currently under way across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Work is progressing rapidly on the installation of 82 kilometres of new sewerage lines in Rawalpindi. In addition, a two-kilometre-long drainage channel will be constructed to ensure the effective disposal of rainwater.<\/p>\n<p>The project also includes the establishment of a modern disposal station with a capacity of 16 cusecs. Authorities have set June 2026 as the target for the completion of the development schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Secretary for Housing, Noorul Amin Mengal, visited several project sites to review progress. During the visit, officials from the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) provided a detailed briefing on the ongoing development works.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in Rawalpindi&#8217;s history, a major project to overhaul the city&#8217;s sewerage system, costing Rs15 billion, has been launched. The initiative is being carried out under the Punjab Chief Minister&#8217;s Development Programme, with large-scale development work currently under way across the city. Work is progressing rapidly on the installation of 82 kilometres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}