The Clean Karachi campaign has been a major success of the Sindh government and until now millions of tonnes of waste had been transferred from Karachi to landfill sites and this work will continue on a permanent basis, said Provincial Minister for Human Settlements Ghulam Murtaza Baloch
He said this while visiting various areas of Malir under the Clean Karachi campaign today. On the occasion, Assistant Commissioner Bin Qasim Zahid Junejo, Director Sanitation District Council Mushtaq Mutto informed Baloch about the ongoing cleanup campaign.
The provincial minister reviewed the ongoing work in various areas of Gulshan-e-Hadid and UC-Pipri in Shah Town, Eid Goth, Allah Baksh Himaiti Goth, Dar Mohammad Gobol Goth, Murid Gabol Goth and Bin Qasim Railway Station Colony. Seeing a garbage pile in front of school in Allah Bakhsh Himaiti Goth, The minister expressed his resentment and issued directives to take action against the violators and asked to set up police pickets there.
Baloch directed the assistant commissioner to take action against those who had thrown garbage outside despite a ‘Katchra Kundi’ which had been put there so that citizens don’t throw garbage on the floor. On the complaint of residents of Bin Qasim Railway Quarters that the cattle pens’ owners threw dung there, he directed to take action against them and asked that the trash be transferred to the Direct Landfill Side. The minister also directed the district administration to audit crores of rupees received from the citizens of the Pakistan Steel Mills Limited Trust in Gulshan-e-Hadid. Thousands of tonnes of garbage had been shifted from Malir district only in the Clean Karachi campaign under the direction of Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah. Baloch was of the opinion that Buffalo enclosures in residential areas played a role in disrupting the sewerage system, and action was being taken against them, he said.