It is usual to see people criticising and complaining about the Capital Development Authority (CDA)’s negligence of its duties and leaving work undone or half done but on this Eidul Adha, the Sanitation Directorate of the CDA managed well the collection and disposal of offal and other waste produced by the sacrificial rituals held in federal capital. The majority of residents in various sectors of Islamabad appreciated the CDA for cleaning up the offal that was thrown at garbage sites and roadsides in residential areas after thousands of animals had been sacrificed. Taking a round of the areas most likely to be overflowing with piles of offal was a pleasant surprise and proved that when the civic authority wants to, it can do its job and do it well, regardless of how carelessly citizens dispose of their leftovers because, it has to be said, most Pakistanis are not civic-minded at all! The worst garbage dumps are in Rawalpindi, in areas like Sabzazar, Dheri Hasanabad, Lalazar, Lalkurti, Jhanda Chichi, and other densely populated areas and they were cleared, not only of offal, but all the garbage that had collected over the days preceding Eid.
In some easy-to-access areas the sites were washed and others had been cleared. In the federal capital, the waste was well-managed and disposed-off in all sectors. It was also noticed that some narrow lanes and byways were not cleared immediately because people were too careless and did not dispose of offal in the designated areas, yet nothing was left for too long to rot and cause unhygienic conditions during the first two days of Eid. Talking to various store owners and people who live in the impoverished areas of the city, it was learnt that sanitation workers had been working throughout the day and late into the evening and were back on the job early in the morning. Appreciating the work done by the sanitation staff at the CDA, they said that these workers should be acknowledged and suitably rewarded, who had the most unenviable jobs in the world.
Earlier on the eve of Eid, the CDA’s Sanitation Directorate had finalised all arrangements for the collection and disposal of offal and other waste of the sacrificial animals in the capital during Eidul Adha under the leadership of CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi.
