Working holidays: As Eid celebrated, LWMC workers keep city clean

Chief minister announces one week salary bonus.

LAHORE:

The chief minister announced a week’s bonus salary for Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) workers when their Eid operations concluded on Friday.

The LWMC staffers had been tasked to ensure cleanliness in the city during the three Eid holidays.

The Eid operation started two days before Eid. As many as 161 camps were set up at 150 union councils of the city to guide and assist the general public in ensuring cleanliness when of disposing animal waste. Over 11,000 LWMC workers were on Eid duty.

As many as 400,000 waste disposal plastic bags were distributed among citizens. They were also given briefings on the correct use of the bags.

Over 1,175 vehicles transported waste from sacrificial sites to dumping sites set up by the city administration.



Sixty-nine temporary waste transfer points were set up. Huge dumpers and compactors carried the waste to the dumping sites and small pickup trucks and vans moved into narrow streets of the Walled City.

The IT Department of the LWMC recorded the movement of all of the company’s machinery.

Nearly 27,000 tonnes of animal waste was transported to dump sites during the holidays.

The LWMC helpline, 1139, addressed nearly 2,500 complaints of citizens regarding waste in three days.

Over 28,000 pictures of live operations were uploaded to the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) website to monitor and evaluate the cleanliness drive.

The company offices remained open during Eid holidays.

LWMC Chairman Khawaja Hassaan, Managing Director Waseem Ajmal, General Manager (Operations) Khalid Majeed, Manager (Operations) Asif Iqbal, company Secretary Muzaffar Islam and communications manger supervised and monitored the operations.

The Lahore commissioner and district coordination officer also visited various sites to check the arrangements.

Film actress Reema and Jal band member Farhan Saeed also joined hands with the LWMC to boost the morale of workers who spent their Eid in the field.

Reema joined the LWMC drive in Islampura and distributed waste bags among citizens. She also briefed them on Eid operations and requested them to cooperate with the LWMC and keep the city clean. She also helped clean the area.

Saeed visited the LWMC camps in the Walled City and sang motivational songs for the workers. The company chairman thanked the LWMC workers for ensuring successful Eid operations.

He announced a week’s bonus salary on behalf of the chief minister during his visit to the Shah Jamal emergency camp of the LWMC.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2013.