Cleanliness project: USAID provides six garbage disposal vehicles

PESHAWAR:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave the district government six vehicles for a new cleanliness project.

Under the project, ‘Municipal Services Programme’ USAID handed the keys of two sweepers, a compactor, a multi-loader, a mini dumper and a suction jet to the chief minister’s advisor on local government, Haroon Bilour.

The three-year project will cost Rs8 billion, said Bilour, while inaugurating cleanliness week at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar.

Bilour said the machines will be useful, especially during the rains when suction of sewerage holes is required to clear streets.

“It was my late father’s dream to start this project and make Peshawar ‘the city of flowers’ again”.

Public awareness sessions will be held in educational institutions and markets.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2013.