Mayor orders steps to regularise KMC’s disabled employees

Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar has said that the policy on the job quota for the disabled peoples will be strictly implemented in the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) and only those who deserve to be appointed to such posts will be given an opportunity to serve the organisation.
In the initial stage, applications from disabled contractual employees of the KMC have been invited to fill the vacant posts from BPS-1 to BPS-15 in different departments. According to the mayor, the regularisation of the service of the disabled contractual employees will be made in a transparent and impartial manner to give the right persons their right.
He says that this would enable the disabled persons working in different departments to perform their duties even more honestly and sincerely and to serve the city in an excellent manner.
Under the directives of the mayor, the human resource management department has issued the letter for the invitation of applications within 15 days along with the certificate of disability from the relevant department and other documents, which will be assessed by the committee constituted for this purpose.
The committee would have the right to accept or reject any applications without assigning any reason for doing so. The applications would be submitted to the office of the senior director of human resource management in the KMC building on MA Jinnah Road.
The mayor has directed the departmental heads to ensure that all disabled contractual employees had submitted their applications with the relevant documents within the stipulated period.
Karachi a highly polluted city, admits mayor
Karachi which has a population of more than 20 million and generates 12,000 tons of garbage daily is the most polluted city of the world and environmental experts have declared it the worst place to live in.
This was stated by Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar while talking to The News on Wednesday. “Yes, garbage has the made the city highly polluted and a garbage den, and this is causing different diseases,” he said in response to a query.
The problem of garbage , according to former Sindh governor Moinuddin Haider, will lead to a law and order situation in Karachi, and appears no one is bothered to make the city clean. The mayor said the KMC was trying its level best to lift the garbage. “We appreciate the help of Malik Riaz, who has extended help to lift the garbage, but there is a limit; every day, garbage is generated and there is a backlog of garbage.”
He admitted that the city had become highly polluted and people were compelled to pass through heaps of trash. He urged the chief minister, Murad Ali Shah, to help Karachi because the city had become the worst place to live in.