PESHAWAR, March 7: Roads and residential areas in Peshawar city are littered with garbage due to shortage of sanitation staff. Garbage bins along roads often overflow spilling the trash on the roads and creating difficulty for pedestrians, Shakil Ahmed, a resident of Gunj locality complained.

Peshawar cantonment, a posh residential area, has some 226 garbage collection points with some 30 sweepers. The busiest Saddar bazaar is also cleaned by sweepers of the Peshawar Cantonment Board (PCB).

Despite complaints of lack of sanitation facilities, the PCB says that the overall cleanliness situation is satisfactory and the general public is responsible for the mess.

“The board has awarded the contract of lifting and removing garbage from the cantonment area to a contractor for a period of two years and he is doing a good job,” Mohammed Shafih, chief executive of the PCB, told Dawn.

Nine supervisors, including two sanitation inspectors, check the work done after garbage is collected every day.

There are only 30 sweepers for the cantonment area which has residential as well as busy commercial centre of Saddar bazaar, the PCB official said.