PM to launch Clean Green Pakistan Index on 30th.

Byline: Jamal Shahid

ISLAMABAD -- Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam announced on Sunday that the Clean Green Pakistan Index (CGPI) would be launched on Wednesday (Oct 30).

He said that it would encourage competition among cities on various indicators, including public access to drinking water, safe sanitation, effective solid waste management and tree plantation.

Talking to mediapersons, Mr Aslam said Prime Minister Imran Khan would launch the Clean Green Pakistan Index, adding that key representatives of provincial governments, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, federal and provincial ministers, senior officials, ambassadors of various countries, university teachers and students and senior representatives of local and international non-governmental organisations would attend the ceremony.

Mr Aslam said the baseline data of 19 competing cities would be announced at the ceremony, and after six months, the competing cities would be ranked again.

Those with prominent progress will be rewarded with special federal and provincial government funds. After six months, more cities will be added in the competition as second phase of the programme, he added.

The initiative will measure sanitation, environmental indicators of cities, secretary says

The adviser said the CGPI had been rolled out under the PM's Clean and Green Pakistan initiative to ensure environmental conservation and sustainability.

According to the official, the government was focusing on transforming overall outlook of the cities, which would play key economic roles in the coming days.

'Cities in many countries across the world are playing vital roles in the overall socioeconomic development. It is because cities are now providing economies of scale and they are also providing efficient infrastructure and services through density and concentration in sustainable transportation, communications, power, human...