RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Local Government and Community Development (LG&CD) Director Malik Abid Hussain has said that the first phase of ‘Clean villages, Clean Punjab’ programme launched under the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has been completed. He stated this while presiding over a meeting of the department to review arrangements for the second phase of ‘Clean villages, Clean Punjab’ programme on Wednesday. Malik Abid Hussain said in the first phase 2,662 heaps of garbage from 98 rural union councils of Rawalpindi district had been removed. The director said for the first phase of the programme 702 sanitary workers have been engaged and 230 vehicles have been hired. He said all-out resources are being utilised to make the ‘Clean Villages, Clean Punjab’ programme successful and arrangements have been made to ensure cleanliness on permanent basis. Published in Daily Times, January 4th 2018.