LAHORE: Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz Sharif has ordered `excellent’ cleanliness arrangements on the eve of Eidul Azha across Punjab.

The chief minister assigned the tasks to Solid Waste Management Companies and to the administration of every district to ensure zero waste and warned of action in case of any lapse.

He directed deputy commissioners and officers of SWMCs to review cleanliness plan by making field visits and announced that he would personally supervise all the arrangements being made.

Hamza Shehbaz also ordered facilities for visitors at tourist spots, specially Murree and asked official concerned to maintain the flow of traffic in all the tourist places.

LWMC: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) claims to have prepared a fool-proof plan to lift and dump the sacrificial animals’ offal and other solid waste during the three days of Eid.

LWMC cleanliness plan ‘ready’ for Eid days

According to LWMC, it has set up 13 camps in the cattle markets and sacrificial animals’ sale points, 280 camps in as many union councils and 18 model camps at various places in the city to distribute environment-friendly waste bags among the people, besides lodging waste-related complaints.

“More than 12,000 workers with 1,088 vehicles, have been mobilised in the field in a bid to keep the city clean by timely collection and dumping of animals’ offal and other solid waste during the three days of Eidul Azha. As many as 356 excavators have also been mobilised, and some of these started cleanliness work on Chand Raat,” LWMC Managing Director Ms Rafia Haider said in a statement on Saturday.

She said 434 trolleys had also been mobilised in the city, of which 37 would be used for Chand Raat operation and 155, 151 and 91, respectively on the first, second and third day of Eid.

Similarly, she said, 132 loaders had been deployed for Chand Raat operation and Eid holidays.

As many as 1,066 dumpers and 3,500 pick-ups would also be in the field, she added.

“We are well-prepared for executing Eidul Azha cleanliness plan as we have already executed pre-Eid operation successfully in which 175 major mosques and Eidghas were washed,” she claimed, adding that the company in this operation lifted and dumped 14,000 tonnes of solid waste.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2022