Lahore:
The collection of door to door to door as well as maintaining cleanliness in the city have become a challenge for Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC).
The collection of house garbage has so far been launched in 100 of the 274 union councils in the city.
According to sources, the tax resumption of houses and commercial areas after the service will be delayed, while LWMC expenses will increase.
As part of a provincial cleanliness project, cleaning and collection of household waste facilities will be provided in villages tied with cities.
Sanitation facilities were already available in Lahore City, but the Punjab government began preparations for the collection of house garbage in all the Union advice as well as cleaning streets and roads.
The deadline of March 30 had been planned to provide services at the doors of residents.
The Punjab government had also approved the acquisition of machines and the recruitment of employees given the needs of the LWMC before starting the project.
After approval, 2,800 charger shoots were purchased and 6,742 employees must be recruited, 3,810 of which were recruited in the phase.
The recruitment process of 2,932 drivers and other employees is underway.
The number of LWMC employees will increase to more than 18,000.
The LWMC started the pilot project in 20 union councils in the nine cities of Lahore and was targeting to provide door waste collection facilities to the door of all the Union advice by March 30.
Under the plan approved by the provincial government, citizens had to be invited to pay for a garbage tax after providing them with services for three months.
It remains a few days before the deadline of March 30, but the door-to-door waste collection was launched in residential areas of only 100 UC, which would have been unavailabled by machines, the negligence of officers and other reasons.
The sources said that allegations of fuel flight had also surfaced in areas where the service had been launched. Five liters of petrol are allocated for each collection of garbage rickshaws daily, but there have been complaints that they do not finish their entire route.
The LWMC had concluded agreements with various companies to acquire rickshaws and other machines for the door-to-door collection, but the project has not yet been fully implemented.
A resident of Samanabad, Farid Ahmed, said that Garbage was not collected in the houses of his region despite an announcement in this regard. However, another resident, Imtiaz Ahmed, praised the initiative.
LWMC has prepared numerous business plans so far, in particular the collection of garbage taxes, which have failed.
Another citizen, Muhammad Rizwan, opposed the taxation of the garbage tax. He said people were then overwhelmed by inflation and could not pay more taxes.
Answering a question, the CEO of LWMC, Sahib Din Babar, said the program to provide services in villages and cities was successfully underway.
He said that the door -to -door waste collection had started at Lahore and that its implementation in all CUs should be completed by April 15.
The official said it had taken time to hire staff and equipment.
He said the services would be provided to people, then the tax collection process that had already been imposed would be launched.
