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The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation is to initiate the third phase of the ongoing Clean City Campaign in Karachi's District Korangi, city mayor Waseem Akhtar announced on Tuesday. He said that in the second phase of the cleanliness drive, which has been launched in collaboration with Bahria Town, around 200,000 tons of garbage from District Central, which includes Liaqatabad, Nazimabad, New Karachi, North Karachi, areas of the Buffer Zone.
In the first phase of the campaign, the mayor said, around 50,000 tons of garbage had been lifted from New Karachi and North Nazimabad alone. The mayor described the removal of around 200,000 tons of garbage from one district in 45 days as a great achievement of the KMC and Bahria Town. The mayor urged Karachi's residents to support his efforts by maintaining hygiene at in their neighborhoods.
On August 23 the KMC had signed an agreement with Bahria Town to receive logistic support for the removal of 1.1 million tons of a backlog of waste from the city. Besides, Bahria Town offered the KMC around Rs 10 billion to improve Karachi's civic infrastructure. Waseem said the city is generating 13,000 tons of waste every day, whereas the district administration has the capacity to lift only 40 percent of it, which is why the backlog is increasing alarmingly.

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