Abbottabad sanitation firm to collect garbage

Pilot to operate in four of 10 union councils of city

ABBOTTABAD: The Water and Sanitation Services Company in Abbottabad (WSSCA) has started a door-to-door sanitation campaign in four union councils of the city.

The union councils where the campaign will be piloted include the city union council, Nawashehr, Malikpura and Kehal.

Each morning, WSSCA sanitation workers will ring the doorbell of every house and collect garbage. The workers will then transfer the garbage to designated filth stations and then on to the dumping site located in Sulhad.

WSSCA Chief Executive Officer Engr Noor Qasim Khan stated that they have allotted 200 houses, or an 800-metere area, to each sanitary worker to collect trash.

He said that besides sweeping in their assigned areas, each worker will collect garbage for an hour between 8am and 9am daily.

“We are collecting and disposing of 40 tonnes of garbage every day from four UCs and soon will properly start operations in other six UCs. We are doing our best within available resources,” Qasim said.

Sanitary Inspector Kehal Hussain Ahmad told The Express Tribune that this practice would help control garbage pileups.

WSSCA Media manager Umar Swati said that they were working in collaboration with the community on different awareness campaigns.

For this purpose, 70 containers have been placed at different spots in the city where the public has been asked to dump their garbage rather than dumping it into drains which blocks them during the rainy season.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 19^th, 2018.