Contractor to be fined if trash not cleared

The Sindh Solid Waste Management Board’s executive director Nisar Ahmed Soomro has hinted at collecting a service fee in Hyderabad if the board and its contractor, Altas Pak company, won the trust of citizens through their service.

“We will first try to satisfy the business community and the public from our performance and then some reasonable fee will be fixed [for solid waste disposal],” he disclosed while addressing businessmen at the Hyderabad Chamber of Small Trade and Small Industry (HCSTSI).

He assured the business community that the board would impose a fine on Altas Pak if it failed to deliver in Hyderabad.

The company has been given a deadline of six months to get rid of the menace of solid waste.

The company started working in Hyderabad less than four weeks ago with parts of Latifabad taluka selected for its early operations.

Soomro said that over the next two months the door-to-door garbage collection would get underway with one to three visits per day.

“We have to clean Hyderabad’s entire garbage heaps in the first six months of the company’s operations,” he said while adding that a 100-acre landfill site has been acquired along M9 Motorway which connects Karachi with Hyderabad.

He claimed that during the recent monsoon rains the SSWMB helped Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Qasimabad Municipal Committee in the disposal of solid waste through the private contractor had then not started operations.