KARACHI, May 26: “Sanitary condition in some town is satisfactory but in some others, it is still unsatisfactory,” Governor Ishratul Ibad remarked shortly after undertaking a visit of various towns on Monday at the conclusion of a two-week cleanliness campaign in the metropolis.
The governor, who was accompanied by DCO Mir Hussain Ali in the visit, reviewed sanitary conditions in a number of localities of different towns to gauge the improvement.
He urged the town Nazims and municipal officers to make sure that the cleaning of roads and streets, disposal of garbage and removal of encroachment did not stop with the end of the cleanliness campaign. Sincere efforts should be made to make it a continuing process, he added.
About those towns where no improvement in sanitary condition could be brought about and the menace of encroachment also prevailed, Dr Ibad exhorted the local government officials to discharge their duties diligently.
He said that he would be visiting the towns again in a couple of days and “if no visible improvement in sanitary condition is noticed, they will face the music.”
With regard to those towns showing remarkable improvement in sanitary condition, the governor asked the officials to ensure that filth, garbage and encroachment did not re-emerge on roads, streets and lanes from where hundreds of tons of garbage were removed during the cleanliness campaign.
The localities visited by the governor during his two-hour tour included Bohra Pir, parts of Mohammad Bin Qasim Road (Burnes Road), Light House Cinema, City Courts area, Jubilee Cinema, Soldier Bazaar, Patel Parra, Lasbela, Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, People’s Chowrangi, Gulberg, Water Pump, parts of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Bahadurabad and Tariq Road.
The newsmen accompanying the governor saw a visible improvement in sanitary condition along a number of roads and streets of different towns.
The localities which gave a clean look included City Courts Road, main Bohra Pir Road, Soldier Bazaar area, North Nazimabad’s main road, the road that links North Nazimabad and KDA Chowrangi with Dr Ziauddin Hospital, main Gulberg Road, F. B. Area’s Water Pump intersection and main Gulshan-i-Iqbal Road.
However, the governor took strong exception to the filthy material which the sanitary staff of North Nazimabad Town had dumped in the middle of the road after taking it out from a storm-water drain of Allama Rasheed Turabi Road. When the governor expressed his anger over such an ugly sight, the TMO concerned assured him that all the solid waste would be disposed of shortly.
Dr Ibad, who mingled with the people at People’s Chowrangi, ordered the concerned officials to remove encroachment from the nearby footpaths so that pedestrians were not forced to walk on roads.
When a person informed the governor that North Karachi’s Sector 16-A was deprived of water for the last several months, he immediately rang up the KWSB’s managing director and asked him to restore the supply in the affected locality on priority so that the residents did not remain without water in the current hot and humid weather.
PARK: The governor was told by the residents of Tariq Road that a Parda Park, which was later renamed as Hafiz Aslam Shaheed Park, at Tariq Road’s main commercial area had been made a dumping site while its surrounding streets had been heavy encroached upon. Dr Ibad ordered the TMO concerned to remove all sorts of encroachment from the commercial area and restore the park for public.
