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The Sindh government and a Chinese firm have inked an agreement for garbage collection in Karachi, where the solid waste problem has assumed crisis proportions.
The agreement in this respect was signed between the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board and Chinese company Wuzung, Radio Pakistan reported.
Under the first phase of the agreement, Wuzung will collect waste in South and East districts of the metropolis. In both districts, the Chinese company will lift garbage from house to house free of cost.
Garbage containers and trash cans will also be installed at various spots in the districts.
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The waste management board plans to sign an agreement with the Chinese firm for garbage disposal in other districts of Karachi as well.
The Sindh government has been struggling to contain Karachi's garbage emergency for years. In neighbourhoods across the city mounds of garbage can be observed piling up everywhere.
There is no reliable data about the amount of solid waste the metropolis generates on a daily basis, though estimates suggest it runs into thousands of tonnes.
Much of the waste ends up in dumps, alleyways and open spaces where it remains for weeks if not longer, while some of it is burnt in bonfires that unleash a vile miasma that chokes the entire locality.
In an interview on Geo News show Capital Talk (to be aired on Monday), ex-president Asif Ali Zardari had said that a Chinese company will start operations in Karachi soon to clear the city of garbage.
While responding to a question regarding Karachi’s garbage problem, Zardari, whose party rules Sindh, said residents of the Karachi would hear "good news soon".
Former Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah had in July asked the local government ministry to outsource the job of garbage lifting to some international firm in at least three district municipal corporations.
The waste management board then issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) for two DMCs, South and East, to a Chinese firm for the purpose of garbage collection.
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Good news..
Place garbage container at every door step and collect them every week and educate to through the garbage only in the garbage container.
Seriously? Now we need Chinese to pick, recycle and dispose our garbage too?
Very good things getting better we need lots of things to get better
Hope so, Karachi soon to clear the city of garbage. I can hope bcs Japan is helping and intent to revive the Circular Train of Karachi, no interest, no action.
Thanks to Alamgir. Now every work will be done by Chinese companies and the local worker unions who did nothing except politic in the work place will actually find a job for themselves.
was not a deal signed with china back in 2009 for the same, when Mustafa Kamal was the city mayor? what came out of that?
@Junaid , Nothing surprising..it is justt an extension of CPEC
The local City District Government was doing a much better job, but then the Sindh Government took over, and we see a disaster in Karachi now. The solid waste management is a local issue and should be handed over to local municipalities in all the major urban areas.
guys please atleast do somethings urself.... this will hurt your economy very badly in long run...
A ray of hope and a good step by the sind government. I hope we will see Karachi city clean as early as possible.
Good move, garbage menace has become serious, external involvement will avoid local garbage mafia and incompetence. Garbage disposal going to become huge business.
Can't you keep your own city clean? Whoever is responsible for the cleanliness of Karachi should be ashamed of themselves.
We Chinese people are very efficient and will help Pak and clean it up nicely.
I wish my city was cleaner than Singapore and Dubai. I always blame and curse the government for not cleaning my street. They have put a garbage can but it's at the end of the street, 50 meters away, I'm too busy watching cable and don't have time to walk that far. So I dump my garbage in front of my gate and ask government to clean it. My kids play cricket in a field full of garbage most of which I dumped there myself and I curse the government and the whole country for it. BTW I don't pay any taxes.
Good News
@An averge pakistani - an excellent response - Pakistanis need to learn basis eticat themselves
I can understand foreign companies helping Pakistan for advanced goods or services or large scale projects which may be beyond local expertise but it is a worrying sign that something as basic as garbage collection needs foreign intervention.
For the future of the country requires technology and knowledge transfer so that can make in Pakistan, do in Pakistan, service in Pakistan and in time hopefully export. China should be encourage to help Pakistan to do this and not just for ongoing profit of their companies.
Pakistan can't even lift and process its garbage...!!! I don't think so, I think Pakistani people are enough capable as an Indian or chinese would be. I think this is corruption in Pakistan, which will illegally transfer black money to China.
Naturally the manual jobs will go to local labours.
The sign of progress and wealth in pakistan.
Unfortunate, relying on another for your own mess.
So sad. We even can not lift our garbage.
why do we need foreign companies to do that?
The profit from this business can be retained in Pakistan. But unfortunately this profit will go to China. Isnt there any one in Pakistan who can run this business?
Indian company would do a better job...
wonder if if is supposed to good or bad... we dont even pick our own garbage..cleanliness is next to godliness even that is done by Chinese in PAKLAND...folks... I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
What's wrong with our own lot??
Let's see. In Japan garbage separation is a duty of each n every household. 3 different color shoppers are used for it like green for burnable, pink for cans n pet bottles, & white for others. If someone fails to comply this and found guilty may be penalized with huge fines. Every morning the garbage collection vehicles arrive and collect such garbage from outside home collection points. Similar awareness can be provided to our people as well. Importantly the empty garbage bags are purchased by the people themselves but to reduce the burden it can be provided by the City government at their expense.
What a pity that there is no Pakistani company that can do this and we have to ask outsiders to clean our cities
The issue is not only collecting the solid waste but to disposed it off in an environment friendly manner. I am sure local expertise are available than why is it contracted out to Chinese company?
Pathetic wasters! Cannot sweep their own dirt!
Many people seem to be happy for literally being good for nothing.
Where is Karachi muncipality and staff of huge numbers. Fire all those and then ask Chinese. This nation cannot clean their streets, should they deserve any respectable place besides other developing countries?
Sindh Govt. will do everything in their power to make sure problem of waste management is not handed over to municipal corporation where it belongs just to continue enemity towards city and their inhabitants. Yet another bogus plan for a city like Karachi.
So Punjab can give waste management/disposal to Turkish companies but Karachi, which is an even bigger city cannot ask Chinese??? It is a good step, will get rid of the ages old problem of waste and one must appreciate this. Criticism for the sake of criticism is not good. People of Karachi need to be more civilized also!
I dont care who does it. I just want to see a clean city!
I am impatiently waiting my city to get cleaned
I am waiting my city to get cleaned asap.
@Ali jee .... There is a new Internet of Things. Check it out on Wikipedia. It is an inter connectivity of systems. It might even teach Pakistani economists how to manage the future of Pakistan more effectively.
That's great let's take a big step by outsourcing parliament & forces.We will all be happy thereafter
Pakistani workers are lazy, this should solve the problem as lazy workers will not be tolerated..
It's interesting to note that China and Pakistan, the time tested friend ,have started co-operation from CPEC a prestigious project to Lifting Garbage from Karachi road. DOSTI HO TO AISI HO
Sindh government must not complain when the federal government usurps some of the provincial rights given under 18th amendment. All said and done, 18th amendment has proved to be a disaster.
@An averge pakistani, so true... plz pay taxes, it is for your own good
Next outsourcing will be Tandoor/Rumali rotti and Chicken Tikka to China.
R.S. Menon, Bangalore
Cant even manage your own garbage???? What a govt!!! What do u expect from these rulers!?
Too much depending on Chinese.Must understand every good thing comes with a cost.
shuker hai khyal agya