Punjab govt to set up sanitation control rooms

The Punjab government has decided to set up a control room headed by the Local Government Board secretary for effective monitoring of sanitation arrangements on Eidul Azha along with similar arrangements in all districts.

Local Government Secretary Imran Sikandar Baloch has issued instructions that the control room would be fully activated one day before Eid. It will work round the clock on all three days of Eid.

He said 103 employees had been posted to run the control room.

The facility will be operated in three daily shifts.

The provincial secretary announced that citizens could also lodge complaints on the phone numbers of the control room

He said the citizens of the provincial capital could also contact the helpline number 1139 of the Lahore Waste Management Company.

Similar control rooms will work in the districts round the clock.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz Sharif approved remission of one month in the jail terms of prisoners sentenced for minor crimes.

A number of inmates of prisons across the province would be able to celebrate Eid at their homes because of the remission.

The chief minister said while approving the Eid remission that prisons should become reform houses.

“The main objective should be to reform the prisoners being brought to the prisons for committing minor crimes,” he maintained.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2022.