Sindh CM's month-long Clean My Campaign concludes.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah's month-long Clean My Campaign ended up on Monday with lifting of 979, 941 tons of garbage from the beautiful city of Karachi, 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. Nasir Shah briefed the chief minister about the successful campaign launched at his initiative. With a population of at least 23 million, Karachi produces 14000 to 16000 tons of solid waste on daily basis.

There are 20 plus agencies, including Cantonment Boards, PQA, PR, DMCs, and SSWMB which are trying to dispose of the 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 Rs5743 million, which had been increased...

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