Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Sanitation workers of the Capital Development Authority continued collection and disposal of offals, entrails and other waste remains of sacrificial animals in the capital city on the second day of Eidul Azha on Thursday.

During the special operation, workers of the Sanitation Directorate collected and disposed off offals, entrails and other waste material of thousands of sacrificial animals.

The authority had announced to continue the cleanliness operation for three days during Eidul Azha holidays and for this purpose, leaves of all staffers of the department concerned had been cancelled to facilitate the citizens and ensure quality services.

Muncipal Cooperation of Islamabad (MCI) Deputy Mayor Syed Zeeshan Ali Naqvi visited different sectors of the federal capital to inspect arrangements made by the Sanitation Directorate and expressed his satisfaction on their performance.

Sanitation Director Sardar Khan Zimri also visited different areas of the city to make the operation more successful.

The authority, under its special cleanliness drive on the occasion of Eid, deployed around 2,000 workers of Sanitation Directorate including cleaners, supervisory staff, contractors and officers who remained busy on the second day as well.

More than 200 vehicles from Sanitation, Environment, Enforcement and MPO including tractors and trolleys, compactors, trucks, dumpers, shovels, dozers etc took part in the cleanliness drive for collection and disposal of wastes of sacrificial animals.

Being part of the special sanitation plan for Eid, 60 deep ditches had been dug out at 25 different locations in the entire city where offals and other wastes of sacrificial animals were disposed off scientifically in line with hygienic standards.

The director of Sanitation had divided Islamabad into six zones for collection of offals, entrails and other waste remains of sacrificial animals to achieve the target.

Zone-I included the areas of F-5, F-6, Blue Area, Saidpur and Bari Imam while zone-II comprises upon Faisal Mosque, E-7, F-7, F-8, and G-8.

Similarly, areas of sector F-10, F-11, Golra Sharif and Shah Allah Ditta falls in Zone-III, Zone-IV consists of G-9, G-10, G-11 etc, while Zone-V included the areas of sector H-8, H-9, H-10, H-11, I-8, I-9,

I-10/2, I-11 and Zone VI has Highway, Model village Humak, Shahzad Town, Rawal Town and Margalla Town.

Published in Daily Times, August 25^th 2018.