Chief secretary determined to make Quetta ‘green’

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Secretary Captain (retd) Fazeel Asghar has stressed the need to restore the beauty of Quetta and urged the authorities to continue implementing the ban on the use of plastic bags in the city.

He was addressing a seminar titled “Commodities Price Control and Clean and Green Quetta” the other day in the provincial capital.

“The provincial government plans to install solid waste management plant to recycle city’s garbage into energy for which experts from the United States and other developed countries will visit Quetta,” he said.

“The metropolitan corporation has been directed to carry on the implementation on the use of biodegradable plastic bags in the city,” he added.

The chief secretary expressed dissatisfaction over the cleanliness situation in the city and directed Quetta administrator to ensure provision of adequate hygiene and sanitation facilities to the people.

“The provincial government has been taking initiative for clean and green Quetta and the need of manpower for Quetta Metropolitan Corporation would be fulfilled,” he said.

Speaking about the measures taken to ensure implementation on government’s price list for daily-use commodities, Asghar said the authorities had constituted committees at the district level for the purpose.

“Strict action has been directed against profiteers and people selling unhygienic edible items to innocent citizens,” he said.

He urged the Anjuman-e-Tajran and Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry to join government’s hands in establishing sasta bazaars across the province.

The chief secretary took notice of the non-functional wastewater treatment plants in Quetta and maintained that the provincial government would take assistance from the Punjab government for establishing province’s own agricultural authority.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20^th, 2020.