With two days to go until Eidul Azha, the metropolitan body has decided to cancel the leaves of more than 2,000 sanitary workers and other officials of the relevant departments.
Sanitation workers will be participating in a special cleanliness operation on Eidul Azha to collect waste and offal of sacrificial animals from across the city and to properly dispose of it.
More than 100 vehicles from different departments of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) will also take part in the cleanliness operation.
IMC Sanitation Director Sardar Khan Zimri said that they have divided the federal capital into five zones under the Eidul Azha Cleanliness Plan.
Zone-I includes Saidpur village, Sectors G-5, E-7, F-5, F-6,F-7,F-8,F-10,F-11 and Golra. Zone-II comprises Sectors G-6, G-7, G-8 and the Blue Area.
Similarly Zone-III will include areas falling in Sectors G-9, G-10, G-11, and Mera Abadi. Zone-IV includes Sectors I-8, H-8, I-9, H-9, I-10, I-11 and the IJ Principal Road.
Zone-V will include areas falling on the eastern side of Islamabad Expressway including Sohan, Khanna Dak, and areas falling along the Lehtrrar Road such as Tarlai, Ali Pur, Frash Town, Bhara Kahu and four CDA Model Towns.
Cleanliness activity in each zone will be supervised by the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
More than 80 craters at 40 different sites will be dug to dump offal and entrails of the slaughtered animals.
The district administration has urged the people to refrain from sacrificing animals on the streets and roads and to slaughter them at the designated sites by the district administration.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 30th, 2020.
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