Clean My Karachi Campaign concludes.

KARACHI -- The month-long Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah's 'Clean My Campaign' ended up on Monday with lifting of 979,941 tons of garbage from city but this effort would continue in the shape of shared responsibility to be made with all the stakeholders.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while reviewing the progress of the garbage lifting work assigned to deputy commissioners here at CM House. The review meeting was attended by Minister Local Government Syed Nasir Shah, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Local Government Roshan Shaikh, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani, MD SSWMA Asif Ikram, Additional secretary CM House Fayaz Jatoi and others. Minister Local Government Syed Nasir Shah briefed the chief minister about the successful campaign launched at his initiative.

Background

With a population of at least 23 million, Karachi produces 14,000 to 16,000 tons of solid waste on daily basis. There are 20 plus agencies, including Cantonment Boards, PQA, PR, DMCs, SSWMB trying to manage this waste in the city.

The primary responsibility of solid waste management (SWM) lies with the local councils in the administrative jurisdiction of the provincial government. Since 2013-14, the Sindh government has consistently increased the budget of KMC and DMCs.

The chief minister said that the total outlay of DMCs in 2013-14 was Rs 5743 million, which increased to Rs 13792 million (net increase of 140%). However, solid waste management remained sub-optimal. Therefore, to augment the performance on solid waste management, the government established SWMB through an Act of the Assembly and, later, entered into a seven-year management contract with Chinese Companies in four districts, at a cost of $52 million. Before the establishment of SWMB, the total solid waste lifted to Landfill Sites (LFSs) was not more than 5000 tons/per day: after its establishment, the figure reached to 13000 tons/per day. However, the backlog still continued to accumulate, especially in districts where SWMB operations did not extend. They are Central, Korangi and West.

Cleanliness Drive

Launched from 21stSeptember, DCs in all six districts were directed to spearhead the month-long campaign for clearing the backlog. Necessary coordination was made with other agencies to start the same in their areas of jurisdiction. During this exercise 62 temporary GTSs were established. Until 20thOctober 2019 estimated solid waste collected at these GTSs was...

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