Chinese firm's performance in Karachi's waste disposal deemed unsatisfactory

Justice Hani summons firm's chairman to explain poor performance

KARACHI: The Sindh Solid Waste Management Board has expressed disappointment over the operations of the private contractor responsible for disposal of solid waste in districts South and East of Karachi.

The board's managing director Saeed Ahmed Mangnejo pointed out an array of the company's failings at the hearing of the Supreme Court-mandated water commission in Karachi on Wednesday.

"The overall performance of the company is very disappointing," he said, adding that the contractor was yet to start door to door collection of solid waste. The service is limited to only union committees 29 and 30 in Saddar town.

The company is yet to employ sweepers in District East, while in South, the performance of manual and mechanical sweeping has remained poor, said Mangnejo. According to him, the contractor is bound to carry out collection of solid waste twice a day but the same is not being done.

"Repair and maintenance of vehicles and waste bins is not carried out ... containers and bins are not cleaned." He added that even the monitoring and complaint centres of the contractor were not functioning properly.



He claimed that the contractor has failed to cover the garbage transporting vehicles and the company is understaffed at the managerial and supervisory levels. The control centres at Nishtar Road and Mehmoodabad remain defunct.

Changyi Kangjie Sanitation Engineering Company Ltd secured Rs2 billion per year contract for the disposal of waste in districts South and East. The commission expressed dismay that the company's general manager has evaded appearance before it for the third consecutive time.

"The commission is of the view that presence of the company's chairman is required because the staff deputed here [at] has failed to deliver," Justice (retd) Amir Hani Muslim, the commission's head, ordered.