They will study the feasibility of replicating LWMC model in India. PHOTO: LWMC FACEBOOK PAGE
The delegation will study the feasibility of replicating the LWMC model in Indian cities.
The delegation comprising LWMC Managing Director Waseem Ajmal Chaudhry, General Manager (Operations) Khalid Majeed and Manager (Operations) Asif Iqbal crossed the Wahga Border on Sunday to visit Amritsar, Ludhiana, Ferozepur and other cities. In November 2012, the Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal had visited Lahore and expressed appreciation of LWMC model and stressed the need to replicate it in Indian Punjab. After his approval, a four-member Indian delegation had visited Lahore in the first week of March to study the LWMC model.
The LWMC delegation will be meeting the mayor of Amritsar and commissioners of corporation besides seeing Solid Waste Management systems and landfills in the proposed cities. Badal has also invited the delegation to visit his ancestral village in Jalalabad.
The LWMC representatives will see SWM offices in these cities and observe field operations.
“We are expecting a breakthrough by the end of this visit in the form of consultancy services and approval of replication of LWMC model in Indian Punjab cities. It is heartening to see that solid waste and the environment are becoming a concern in third world countries. We are eager to lend a helping hand to improve the situation in other cities,” said LWMC Managing Director Chaudhry.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2013.
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