The month-long 'Clean my Karachi' campaign ended up on Monday with the Sindh government claimed to have lifted a cumulative of 979,941 tonnes of garbage from the city.
While reviewing the progress of the garbage lifting work assigned to deputy commissioners here at CM House, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah said this effort would continue in the shape of shared responsibility to be made with all the stakeholders.
The meeting was attended by Minister Local Government Syed Nasir Shah, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Local Government Roshan Shaikh, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani, MD SSWMA Asif Ikram, Additional secretary CM House Fayaz Jatoi and others.
Minister local government Syed Nasir Shah briefed the CM about the campaign launched at his initiative. It was briefed that Karachi produces 14,000 to 16,000 tonnes of solid waste on daily basis. There are 20 plus agencies, including Cantonment Boards, PQA, PR, DMCs, SSWMB trying to manage this waste in the city.
It was informed that primary responsibility of solid waste management (SWM) lies with the local councils in the administrative jurisdiction of the provincial government. Since 2013-14, the Sindh government has consistently increased the budget of KMC and DMCs.
Launched from 21st September, DCs in all six districts were directed to spearhead the month-long campaign for clearing the backlog. Necessary coordination was made with other agencies to start the same in their areas of jurisdiction.
During this exercise 62 temporary GTSs were established. Until 20th October 2019 estimated solid waste collected at these GTSs is 370,504 tonnes which include South 13,790 tonnes, East 52,152 tonnes, Malir 24,292 tonnes, Korangi 93,630 tonnes, West 96,705 tonnes, and Central 89,935 tonnes.
Out of 370,504 tonnes of garbage, 295,563 tonnes have been disposed of at LFSs by SSWMB. The disposed of garbage lifted from South is 14,628 tonnes, 27,294 tonnes from East, 11,005 tonnes from Malir, 64,833 tonnes from Korangi and 95,126 tonnes from West, 82,677 tonnes from Central.
The meeting was informed that 82 percent of the total solid waste has been collected from the districts where SSWMB is not working.
SSWMB officials said the board has been performing its regular/routine job. They have disposed of 154,437 tonnes of solid waste from three districts since 21st September. Thus, the cumulative for campaign plus the regular activity comes to 464,390.21 tonnes. Their details are South 45,038.90 tonnes, East 87,662.54 tonnes, Malir 36,993.69 tonnes, Korangi 73,463.31 tonnes, West 107,772.55 tonnes, Central 91,511.92 tonnes and others 21,947 tonnes.
In addition to all this the DCs of Korangi and Malir collected the Solid Waste at permanent GTS of Sharafi Goth where total Solid Waste to be lifted to LFS is 455,000 tonnes.
CM spelling out way forward to keep the city clean has given long term and short term plans. They are as Fast-track implementation of 13 ADP schemes reflected in the budget.
Establishment of Six Garbage Transfer Stations with Material Recovery (MR) & Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and Development of Sanitary Engineered existing two Landfill Sites & their scientific improvement. These schemes have an estimated cost of Rs2.8 billion against which Rs1 billion have been allocation this year.
Development of 3000 acres LFS at Dhabeji for which allotment of land is under process with BoR.
He directed SSWMA to modernise SWM system. CM also directed Local Government Department and SSWMB to take steps to start Medical and Industrial Hazardous Waste Management projects. He also urged the SSWMA to establish a charging/ticketing system for other agencies with regards to collection/final disposal.
Under the short term plan, CM approved Rs88 million for DMC Korangi, Central, West and District Council Malir to enable them to continue their mission. This money will be utilised for repair of machinery, equipment, etc. under the supervision of DCs.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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