Officials directed to keep Lahore clean

Two meetings on Tuesday reviewed the status of Lahore's cleanliness and the city nazim and the Punjab chief secretary in separate meetings ordered officials to keep the city clean.
Punjab Chief Secretary Javed Mehmood held a meeting with Lahore District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood, DG LDA, DG PHA and MD Wasa, in which he directed to keep the city neat and clean, the concerned civic bodies need to function vigorously and with full alacrity.
He issued these directions while presiding over a meeting here on Tuesday, disclosed an official. Among others who attended the meeting included Lahore District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood, DG LDA, DG PHA and MD Wasa.
The chief secretary assured that whatever the resources required would be provided so that the city roads might look clean. Meanwhile, he directed the MD Wasa to personally look into the process of scavenging from time to time.
He also expressed the intention to visit different parts of the city to review the cleanliness in the provincial metropolis. He further directed to discourage the holding of public fairs at parks and to ensure cleanliness there as well.
The nazim told the participants that the waste enclosures had been constructed at various places in the city but more needs to be done in this regard. In other meeting, Lahore Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood reviewed the steps taken for cleaning the city and it was also attended by the District Officer Solid Waste Management, District Officer Planning and staff of Solid Waste Management.
He also instructed the City District Government Lahore to buy 54 dumping trucks at the cost of Rs 80 million for the collection of city rubbish/waste and it should ensure proper monitoring of civic bodies responsible for cleaning the city. He also ordered the concerned officials to ensure that sanitary workers adhere to duty timings of 6 am to 10 am and 11 am to 2 pm.
He also ordered them to fully utilise vacuum cleaners for road cleaning, which has been imported recently from Australia at the cost of Rs 20 million. "These machines should also be utilised at night at busy roads," he added. Mian Amer also asked the concern departments to prepare a comprehensive strategy that ensures full utilisation of machinery for cleaning purposes at the disposal of the City District Government Lahore.
The meeting observed that dump containers placed on roads were obstructing the flow of traffic in the city; thus it decoded that these containers should be replaced with waste enclosures and asked the concerned departments to identify 150 spots for waste enclosures. The meeting also approved to provide sites for Park and Horticulture Authority waste enclosures near the parks in the city.
The nazim issued instruction to place an advertisement to invite private sector to set up garbage separating centres at 15 city government waste enclosures, where non-recycle and recycle rubbish would be separated from garbage. The meeting was told that in addition to 15 waste enclosures, 10 more would be constructed at various parts of the city very soon.