Modalities to remove heap of garbage, and to ensure cleanliness and action against illegal profiteers were discussed in a meeting conducted by MNA Syed Salahuddin and MPA Akram Adil with the officers of district administration and other line departments here at the office of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) last evening.
Hyderabad Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz Babar, Additional Commissioner-II Abid Saleem Qureshi, Managing Director Water and Sanitation Agency Saleemuddin, Executive Engineer Irrigation Mubin Abbasi and Municipal Commissioner Azhar Qadir Memon among others and took part in the deliberation.
Addressing the meeting, MNA Syed Salahuddin said distribution of new budget which was passing from transaction period created some difficulties for the Municipal Administration.
He asked the authorities for early release of fund so that routine work of cleanliness could not be suffered. He said the main motto of his party was to serve the people without any discrimination and to do its best to provide relief to the citizens during the holy month of Ramzan-ul-Mubarak. He directed the officers to be more vigilant and take strict action against the illegal profiteers. He asked the officer of HMC to prepare contingency plan for converting the Hyderabad City into clean and beautiful town.
The deputy commissioner while briefing the meeting said that all arrangements had been made by the district administration to provide kitchen items to the citizens on cheaper and reasonable rates.
He informed that 35 flour stalls had been opened to provide 10 kg flour bags at the subsidised rate of Rs 230 at different places whereas all the revenue officers had been placed at the markets to ensure supply of kitchen items to consumers at the fixed rates. He said checking of prices was being made on daily basis by which many defaulters either had been imprisoned or fined. Besides, he informed that the revenue officers were also taking the matter of cleanliness and hopefully the same would be completed within shortest possible time with the consultation and cooperation of municipal authorities.
He made it clear that district administration was also preparing to cope with forthcoming monsoon with success.
Meanwhile, the deputy commissioner directed all taluka municipal administrators to prepare their contingency plan for cleanliness in their respective areas and ensure that all the heaps of garbage, hurdles in traffic flow and encroachments of sewerage lines were removed.
The deputy commissioner issued such directives while presiding over meeting at his camp office on Tuesday regarding cleanliness in the city, which attended by all taluka municipal administrators, assistant commissioners and other officers of line departments attended the meeting.
The deputy commissioner directed the officers not only to observe week for cleanliness but to prepare such strategy to perform this task on regular basis.
He said that PPP government wanted the work visible to every one and cleanliness could be main justification of their job. He said heaps of garbage, abandon building material on roads/streets not only causing health issues, interruption in traffic and sewerage flow but also creates irritation among the people.
He said that by maintaining the areas as clean, they would not only provide healthy living atmosphere to the people but also save them from the diseases. He directed the officers to prepare their contingency plan for cleanliness and submit their report within two days. He said the Sindh government will extend all possible help to the local government and district administration to provide full administrative support to the officers in this task.
