QUETTA: Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (QMC) is all set to make operational waste collection machinery imported from Japan before Eid-ul- Azha, said the city’s Mayor Dr Kaleem Ullah on Friday.
The kit including waste lifting, collecting and dumping equipment and vehicles would have the capacity to collect 1200 tons of trash, which is 65 per cent of the total waste produced daily by the city.
The mayor said it is his resolve to make Quetta the cleanest city by the end of his tenure.
He added that QMC for the said purpose has invested Rs800 million that adds a recycling plant for getting rid of increasing waste that the metropolitan city generates.
Kaleem, however, expressed concern over was a shortage of staff and said that the government was asked to provide more workforce and financial resources to meet our targets.
“In 1985, QMC had a total of half million population served by the same strength of workers of the Corporation even today despite an increase in its population up to 4 million,” he said.
He said QMC is handling the load of 40 per cent of the total Balochistan’s population with limited resources and workers. “QMC needs 3,500 sanitation workers whereas its strength is approximately 1,000,” he demanded.
He stated that QMC workers will go door to door to collect garbage on Eid-ul-Azha, and the city has been divided into four zones for this purpose.
He said an operation would be launched soon against encroachments along watercourses and nullahs for efficient working of sewerage system so that the rainwater could not cause inconvenience to the public.
Replying to a question about the demolishing of meat market, he said we are establishing new meat market and there would be a large car parking which would accommodate 500 hundred cars.
He regretted for not letting them work freely under the Article 140 A of the Constitution and hoped new the government would cooperate in this regard.
