Daily Times

To ensure the cleanliness arrangements on the eve of Eidul Azha 2018, the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has chalked out a comprehensive plan of sanitation arrangements on Thursday.

All staff will remain on board during Eid holidays to provide Solid Waste Management (SWM) services. LWMC will ensure the implementation of cleanliness arrangements in coordination with Albayrak and Ozpak.

According to plan, the standard SWM activities will mainly focus on prompt collection, storage, transportation and disposal of animal waste during three days of Eid. In order to manage animal waste, LWMC will distribute around 2.1 million customised waste bags among citizens. The bags will be available free of cost in respective UC Camps/Zonal Offices, Major mosques/Eid Gahs.

LWMC will hire 3,284 pickups for collection of animal waste across the city including private housing societies by establishing special collection points. Pickups would be deployed in all Union Councils for this purpose as well as. LWMC will also use additional resources and deploy pickups, containers and trolleys to ensure the cleanliness at Ijtamai Qurban Gahs.

In addition to containers, 116 temporary waste storage points for animal waste will also be established wherever possible.

Similarly, special cleanliness arrangements will be ensured near and around Eid Gahs and mosques. LWMC will establish Eid Camps in each UC of Lahore and in total, 299 camps will be established, not only to address the complaints of the citizens but to efficiently coordinate cleanliness activities in the respective UCs as well.

Out of 299 camps, 134 camps will be set up from Albarak, 140 camps from OzPak and 25 camps from LWMC.

Community interface department will install 22 model camps all over city for distribution of waste bags and dissemination of awareness messages among the masses. Awareness material and garbage bags for animal waste will also be made available in these camps.

LWMC will also launch an awareness programme followed by public service message display across the city.

LWMC Managing Director Farrukh Butt said that LWMC will establish a control in head office with special focus to coordinate collective operational activities and to monitor the activity of field teams and redress the complaints of Lahoris. He further said that LWMC will provide ordinary cleanliness services during Eid days. He has appealed citizens to cooperate with them to maintain cleanliness in the city and register their waste related complaints on their helpline for swift redressal.

Published in Daily Times, August 17^th 2018.