KARACHI: Insanitation is deadlier than atomic weapons. This is the gist of one of the slogans selected by the Karachi Municipal Corporation for its ‘Keep Karachi Clean’ campaign.

The campaign, which has been launched recently, will last three months and will rely on the usual media of posters, hoardings, brochures and cinema slides. Posters have already appeared in certain parts of the city and the showing of cinema slides has also begun.

Hoardings will be out up on roadsides in a few days, and the distribution of brochures will follow thereafter. One of the hoardings will bear the slogan: ‘Atomic weapons are deadly. More deadly is insanitation. Keep your city clean.’ The KMC plans to back up the exhortation part of the campaign with the augmentation of its sanitation services. More refuse vans are planned to be pressed into service and more dustbins are to be provided.

Similar campaigns have been launched in the past, but have produced no appreciable results. It remains to be seen if the present campaign succeeds in giving a cleaner look to the city.

India to go ahead with Farraka dam project

NEW DELHI: Indian Minister for Power and Irrigation Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim told the Lok Sabha yesterday that India would proceed with the construction of the Farraka Barrage project according to schedule. His remarks came while experts of India and Pakistan were engaged in the exchange of data on the process of mutual interest.

The minister was making a statement in response to a call attention notice given by two communist members from West Bengal. He said that the Government of India had delayed the project to “take into consideration Pakistan’s reasonable interests” but there was no obligation or intention that there should be any further delay. — Agencies