Waste disposal station built next to school

Several local organisations and schoolchildren staged a sit in outside the deputy commissioner’s office to press their demand that the district administration shift the Dawood Nagar waste water disposal station away from their school.

The protesters’ leaders that the children and local residents should be saved from pollution causing respiratory diseases. The protesting students and teachers raised slogans and blocked traffic on the road. The high school’s principal Zaibun Nisa told the media that Water and Sanitation Agency officials had built the waste water disposal station, exposing the students to a hazardous environment and stink.

Minority Alliance Pakistan chairman Akmal Bhatti said the school administration had provided alternate land for the disposal station.

He said WASA had installed heavy machinery causing air and noise pollution. The protesters dispersed after Assistant Commissioner Aziz Khan reached the spot and asked their leaders to hold a discussion in his office.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19^th, 2023.