Daily Times

LAHORE: Aimed at improving the state of cleanliness in the city, students of the Bahria Univesity, Lahore Campus spent their public holiday with the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) team and scavenger families in a vicinity of gypsies on Sunday where more than 20 tonnes of waste was removed after cleanup operations backed by heavy machinery.

A massive cleanup and awareness drive was conducted jointly by the LWMC and the Bahria University, Lahore Campus in different localities of Johar Town. The purpose of the drive was to improve state of cleanliness and sensitise poor families to hygienic conditions.

Over 30 sanitary workers and machinery was deployed for the drive. Camps were established and awareness banners were displayed in the area. Faculty members and students of the Bahria University along with the LWMC workers and mobilisation teams picked up waste and filth from the area.

As many as 70 students and faculty members of the university along with LWMC community interface specialist Zabreen Hassan, LWMC Deputy Manager Umair Khan and sanitary workers took part in the drive.

Faisal Shabbir of Bahria University appreciated the joint effort of the LWMC and students for the betterment and uplift of poor and neglected segment of the society.

Zabreen Hassan, LWMC head of Community Interface Department, said that carrying out a cleanliness drive on a holiday had a purpose. “It was purely aimed at highlighting miserable life of scavenger families who are an inevitable and constructive component of our system. Their work to segregate waste is likely to be streamlined and incorporated in our system soon for its betterment and output.”