Offal, waste pickup plan ready for Peshawar

About 2,602 sanitary workers, 566 vehicles to clean metropolis on Eid

PESHAWAR:

Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) has finalised a three-day Eid sanitation plan for 43 urban union councils of Peshawar.

The plan was finalised during a meeting with Chief Executive Officer Dr Hassan Nasir in the chair. As per the plan, 2,602 sanitary workers would be on duty on the first day of Eid. The company will collect offal through 566 vehicles of which 310 are WSSP’s own while 253 are private vehicles hired for the biggest sanitation operation of the year.

Some 10,500 tons of waste is expected to be produced within 3 days of Eid.

A week earlier, massive awareness campaign was launched in the provincial metropolis to sensitize the masses about making their surroundings neat and clean and disposing of offal at designated locations.

Our of the total 6,202 staff, 1,189 are sanitary workers, 660 katta qulis, 341 drivers, 293 helpers, 63 municipal inspectors and 55 supervisors.

The vehicle fleet is composed of 153 Suzuki mini-dumpers, 18 mini-dumpers, 25 bike loaders, 20 small tractors, 108 large tractors, 42 compactors, 40 shovels, two trucks, 23 multi-loaders, 109 dumpers, nine excavators and 17 rickshaws. These would be used for pickup of offal and waste during the three-day sanitation operation.

All zonal managers have finalised temporary transfer stations where the waste would be collected from narrow streets and congested residential localities and then taken to Shamshato dumping site, some 22km from city.

The waste would be fumigated and powder lime will be used before covering it with soil at the dumping site and in transfer stations.

Monitoring teams supervised by the Chief Executive Officer WSSP Dr Hassan Nasir comprising general managers, zonal managers, managers and assistant managers are constituted for effective execution of the plan.

To divide the staff and vehicles zone-wise, Zone-A comprising nine union councils will deploy 497-strong staff and 142 vehicles, expecting to pick 2,008 tons of waste.

In Zone B comprising 21 UCs, as many as 1,058 staffers and 211 vehicles will carry out operation and it is estimated to collect 3,702 tons of waste.

The company will deploy 697 staff and 130 vehicles which is likely to collect 2,874 tons of waste from seven UCs of Zone C while 350 sanitary workers are expected to collect 1,951 tons of waste through 80 vehicles of different sizes in Zone D.

As per the plan, the offal collection points would be washed, fumigated while powder lime will be used as disinfectant to quell stench.

The company has already launched an awareness campaign in all union councils. Teams of community development officers are organizing corner meetings.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 19^th, 2021.