Modern waste management plant to be installed at Pindi
By Saad Ahmed

RAWALPINDI—The City District Government (CDG) would soon install a modern and sophisticated waste management plant to dispose of solid waste and utilize its byproducts for the benefit of citizens.
Sources in the city district government told APP here on Thursday that city government was planning to construct a biogas plant which not only would help to dispose of solid waste but also would generate energy in the form of gas. The project would be established in collaboration with private sector, the sources said.
The city government has already chosen a site for this purpose at Losar village near Chak Beli Khan, sources in Municipal Services said. They revealed that the paper work for the purpose was nearing completion and added that physical work on the project would be started soon after the paper work is done. So far the solid is being dumped under ground near airport.
City government has been facing severe criticism over the cleanliness situation in the city after taking the charges of municipal services from Tehsil Municipal Administrations (TMA’s).
TMAs had been demanding the CDG to revert back the charges of solid waste management to the town administrations to ensure cleanliness in the city. The demand was intensified following the fear of Dengue virus spread in the city.
However, CDG has categorically refused to handover the charges of sanitation and solid waste management back to the Tehsil Municipal Administrations. “There is not any proposal to handover the services back because the CDG has taken the charge of these services on the directive of Punjab Chief Minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi,” the sources added.
Rawalpindi city has been divided into four sectors for managing the sanitation services and each sector has Chief Sanitary Inspector (CSI) as in-charge. Almost three to four hundred sanitary workers serve under the CSI in each sector, the sources added.
At present CDG has a work force of about 1500 sanitary workers besides, it possesses 40 trucks, four dumpers, two shovels, two bulldozers and one excavator. The district government has plan to purchase latest machinery to resolve the sanitation problem of the city and provide hygienic atmosphere to its citizens, the sources concluded.