LAHORE, Feb 3: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood has announced washing of the important provincial metropolis roads by the city district government fire-brigade and recruitment of only non-Muslims as sanitary workers in anticipation of Basant and Eidul Azha.

He announced this while inaugurating the Sanitation Week at Jinnah Hall here on Monday to give the city a cleaner look to welcome the visitors from other cities and abroad for Basant and spring festival besides Eidul Azha.

The Nazim announced reinstatement of sanitation workers who were suspended on the charge of dereliction of duty with a warning for being careful in future.

He said the Solid Waste Management had decided 825 move-over cases of sanitary workers during the past one month and paid five days’ overtime for Christmas for the first time.

Mian Amer said the city government was taking steps for improvement in the sanitary conditions in the provincial metropolis despite shortage of sanitary workers. A sum of Rs170 million was being spent on the purchase of new equipment and vehicles for the SWM.

He said there were only 6,000 sanitary workers in Lahore whereas four times more workers had been recruited for 110 million population in Delhi.