DOHA: As the winter camping season comes to an end on March 31, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment plans to launch an intensive inspection campaign to ensure that campers haven’t littered around and breached rules.
The civic ministry offered to the environment protection department 200 of its inspectors from the beginning of the camping season to make sure that the campers followed cleanliness and other rules. The civic inspectors and their counterparts from the environment protection department will be waging an intensive drive and if they find any violations, the campers will be asked to rectify.
The campers must make sure that the area where they put up camps is 100% clean and is not dug up or spoilt in any way.
If the spot is found dirty the camper will be asked to clean it up or a cleaning company will be asked to clean it up and the charges will be deducted from the camper’s security deposit of QR10,000 ($2,747).
Also, if there are fines to be paid for some violations, that money will also be deducted from the security deposit. Only when an environment inspector has checked the spot and given a clean chit will a camper be returned his security deposit. A camper is to be blacklisted if it is found that he has cut a tree or trees, used a loudspeaker or has done some unethical thing or something which is against the Qatari tradition. The environment protection department is actively coordinating also with the Ministry of Interior, and its civil defense directorate, in checking the camps, reports Al Sharq.
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