KARACHI, Sept 7: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has directed the administrations of all the 18 towns of Karachi to take necessary steps to ensure the presence of sanitary workers and other sanitation staff at their respective duties.

He said that the system should be streamlined and those sanitary workers, accused of dereliction should be spared from their jobs and new ones be recruited on contract basis.

The city nazim was speaking at a joint meeting of the town and UC nazims and officials at the Jamshed Town Council Hall on Wednesday evening.

The acting Town Nazim Zia Jamal briefed the city nazim about the sanitary conditions in the town and various development schemes.

The city nazim said that if the desired results were not achieved despite spending millions on sanitary workers and sanitation staff, then the system needed necessary improvements or changes.

Mr Kamal sought a list of sanitary workers, inspectors, sub-inspectors, Muqaddams and chief sanitary inspectors in the town and directed the town officer infrastructure to visit various union councils from morning till 1pm and personally take stock of the sanitary conditions.

The city nazim also asked for providing list of ghost sanitary workers within a week and directed to advertise for the recruitment of new sanitary workers in Jamshed Town.

He said that it had also to be decided within a week that the supervision of the sanitary workers should be handed over completely to the town nazims.

Mr Kamal expressed his concern over the difference in the number of sanitary workers among various union councils.

He said that the sanitary workers be distributed among the UCs as per their area, who would carry garbage to the dumps from where it would be lifted by contractors.

The city nazim directed that from now on only such equipment be procured which might help lift garbage and debris from internal streets.

He called for an immediate submission of PC-1 for the replacement of old 24-inch-dia pipeline at Tariq Road, which would cost around Rs55 million.

Mr Kamal directed the town administration to hold an identification parade of employees on sanitary duties, like those of the coolies of the government's health department and said they should be made to wear jackets to show that the town staff was on duty.

The nazim was informed that work was in progress on laying of sewerage line at New M.A. Jinnah Road.

The meeting was told that in the UCs of Mehmoodabad where there was no water supply system, an 18-inch-dia pipeline was being laid from Karsaz Main line to supply them water.

CANADIAN DELEGATION: The city nazim said that for the first time a master plan for Karachi had been prepared in which the future housing needs had been identified.