Operation clean-up: New plants, fumigation at the sit-in site

Chairman lauds civic agency staff’s work.

ISLAMABAD:

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Saturday completed massive a clean-up campaign and subsequent fumigation of the venue of the long march and sit-in and its adjoining areas.

The work on the improvement of environment especially rehabilitation of the green belts and median strips is in progress and new plantation is being made where required to make up for the damage done during the procession at Jinnah Avenue and adjacent locations.

CDA Chairman Tahir Shahbaz visited the site to monitor the cleanliness operation, being carried out by different formations of the authority, on the second day and appreciated the efforts of workers for bringing Islamabad back to normal.

A lot of litter was scattered in different spots of Blue Area and Jinnah Avenue following the sit-in of thousands of people who had gathered in the capital on the call of MQI leader Dr Tahirul Qadri.

Employees of the Sanitation, Health Services and Environment Wings took part in the campaign, who were asked to work on an off-day, said an official.

During the visit, the chairman was apprised that 150 workers of the Environment Wing are participating in the ongoing drive to rehabilitate the environment. Plantation of fresh saplings as well as improving of the green belts and median strips, is among the list of duties given to them, he added.

The Health Services Directorate, on the other hand, carried out fumigation and spray along Jinnah Avenue and adjacent portions of the Blue Area to prevent spread of any epidemic in the vicinity.

More than 200 sanitation workers took part in the operation to remove garbage and other waste which mainly comprised plastic bottles, bags, food packs,sticks and peels of fruits etc.

Shahbaz said that Islamabad is a model city due to its natural environment, road infrastructure and landscape and the civc body is striving hard to maintain this beauty.

He said that the efforts of workers are laudable. 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2013.