JHANG City News

Newly-built road turned into garbage dumping site
From Our Correspondent
JHANG: Newly-completed Jhang-Toba Road urban portion, built at a cost of Rs40 million, has been turned into a waste disposal point by the tehsil municipal administration (TMA).
Huge heaps of garbage could be seen along the road near Government College for Women hostel wall. The TMA sanitation staff have reportedly been allowed to collect garbage from streets and residential localities and dump it along Jhang-Toba road, to shift it outside the city later on through loaders and trolleys.
Besides presenting an ugly look, the garbage is damaging the newly-built road and hampering the flow of traffic on this part of the road. The atmosphere has become highly unhygienic and a birthplace of mosquitoes.
The affected citizens have demanded the authorities take notice of poor performance of the Jhang TMA officials. They alleged the TMA staff was violating orders of the administrator about removal of garbage from the area.
TMA Chief Officer Mukhtar Shah told this correspondent it was decided that garbage collected from residential areas would be dumped at empty places along Toba Road temporarily and then shifted outside the city till allocation of a permanent garbage dumping site. He said sanitation staff, along with their loaders and trolleys, had been engaged in an anti-encroachment drive and that was way garbage heaps had increased along the road. He promised the road would be cleared in the next two days.