Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) disseminated its plan of Sanitation arrangements for upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
According to plan, LWMC is going to make special arrangements for Solid Waste Management (SWM) on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha emphasizing on pre-Eid, during Eid and after Eid challenges. Arrangements have been made in coordination with Turkish Contactors (M/s Albayrak & M/s Ozpak) with aim to ensure exemplary cleanliness arrangements for the people of Lahore.
All the staff of LWMC will remain on board during Eid days to provide efficient cleanliness services to the citizens of Lahore. The standard Cleanliness activities will mainly focus on prompt collection, storage, transportation and disposal of animal waste during all three days of Eid.
In order to manage animal waste, LWMC is going to distribute about 1.7 Million bio degradable waste bags in Lahore. The waste bags will be made available free of cost in respective 293UC Camps, Zonal Offices, Major Masajids / Eid Gahs. Similarly, for prompt collection of animal waste, LWMC will hire pickups 2 days before Eid for garbage bag distribution, awareness & waste collection. 3400 pickups will be hired for all of Eid-ul-Azha operation.
These pickups will be deployed in all UCs of Lahore for collection of animal waste. LWMC will also ensure the cleanliness of Ijtami Qurban Gahs by providing additional resources i.e. pickups, containers, trolleys etc. In addition to containers, 119 temporary waste storage points for animal waste will also be established wherever feasible.
LWMC will also collect animal waste from all private housing societies by establishing special collection points. Administration of private societies will be responsible for collection of waste within their premises whereas LWMC will collect and transport waste from five temporary designated points only.
Similarly, special cleanliness arrangements will be ensured near and around Eid-Gahs/Masajids. It was also requested to all religious clerics to sensitize public during Jumma and Eid sermons to cooperate with LWMC and maintain cleanliness. LWMC will establish Eid Camps in each Union Council of Lahore and in total 293 camps will be established, not only to address the complaints of the citizens but to efficiently coordinate cleanliness activities in the respective UC’s as well.
Moreover, awareness material and garbage bags for animal waste will also be made available in these camps. A control room will be established in LWMC head office with special focus to coordinate collective operational activities during Eid days.
LWMC communication department will also launch a rigorous awareness program on electronic and print media followed by public service message display across the city and will install 18 model camps all over Lahore for distribution of waste bags and dissemination of awareness messages among the masses. The message to maintain cleanliness during Eid ul Azha and use of waste bags for disposal of waste will be propagated.
Moreover, Imams of Masajids are also being sensitized to include the topic of cleanliness in their Friday and Eid sermons. LWMC Chairman Riaz Hameed Chaudhry stated that to ensure exemplary cleanliness arrangements during Eid, holidays of LWMC officials and more than ten thousand workers have been cancelled. He also said that complains of citizens would be resolved on priority. LWMC MD Muhammad Aslam Rao said that LWMC will be providing extra ordinary cleanliness services and at the same time people of Lahore should also cooperate with us to maintain cleanliness and for any waste related complaints please dial 1139helpline for swift redressal or use mobile based application CLEAN LAHORE and social media.
