Plan devised to enforce new model of waste collection, says Zeeshan

LAHORE:Local Government & Community Development (LG&CD) Department has devised a plan to implement a new model of waste collection in the province.

According to the plan, the solid waste collected from door-to-door will be shifted directly to the dumping site. This was disclosed in a meeting chaired by Local Government Minister Zeeshan Rafiq at the Civil Secretariat. Secretary LG&CD Shakeel Ahmed Mian and Additional Secretary Maria Tariq were also present.

During the meeting, Chief Minister’s ‘Suthra Punjab’ programme was reviewed and various suggestions were discussed for the implementation of the new model of sanitation in the City. Local Government minister said that garbage would be collected from every house under the supervision of LWMC. He added that instead of dumping garbage at different points, it will be directly moved to the dumper.

The minister said that LWMC would provide waste bins in every house. ‘Twice a week, the garbage will be emptied into the dumper’, he added. He said that the CM has prohibited to pile the garbage at different places, so the garbage received from the houses would now be transferred directly to the dumping site. Zeeshan Rafiq said that the new model would be implemented in the housing schemes of LDA in the first phase.

During the meeting, it was also decided to monitor the cleaning operation through artificial intelligence. The minister reiterated his determination that according to the vision of the chief minister, a modern system of sanitation would be implemented in a phased manner throughout the Punjab. Expressing his satisfaction over the ongoing drive to clean the roads in the cities to deal with danger of smog, he noted that dust was the main cause of air pollution.

Secretary Local Government Shakeel Ahmed Mian directed the LWMC to prepare a presentation, vowing that the current sanitation system will be replaced by an effective system for better delivery.