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.
This plan will soon be presented before the City Council for approval; he said this while talking to a delegation of Canada's Mortgage Housing Corporation here on Thursday.
The nazim underlined the need for introducing new but cost- effective technology in the housing sector whereby houses were constructed in less time.
He told the delegation that housing schemes had been launched in Karachi after a lapse of 20 years where thousands of plots of 80 and 120 sq-yards had been earmarked for low income people.
These schemes will not only resolve the housing problems of people but also help provide quality residential facilities, he added.
The Canadian delegation said that their company possessed vast experience in the construction sector and was interested in making investments in the housing sector in Karachi.
Mr Kamal informed that at present over 10 companies were present to construct houses on 80 sq-yard plots in Taiser Town and some of them had even constructed model houses using the latest technology.
The city government, he said, was working as felicitator between plot owners and investment companies.
He asked the company to construct a model house as a pilot project.
Mr Kamal informed that in the housing schemes of Malir and Lyari development authorities, a complete system of rainwater disposal was being laid along with other utilities.
NMC course: Speaking to participants of the 85th National Management Course of Pakistan Administrative Staff College, led by Principal of the College, Lt Gen (Rtd) Javed Hasan, Nazim Mustafa Kamal said that the objective of development of Karachi is the progress of Pakistan.
“If Karachi will progress, Pakistan will progress fast and we have carried city's problems to highest level and those at the helm of affairs are giving serious thought to the same”.—PPI/APP
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