KARACHI: Removal of waste from Karachi, Sindh Government and the World Bank have agreed to launch a $200 million Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (SWEEP) for improvement and removal of waste from streets, drainage channels and canals/nadis in the city of Karachi.
Competitive and Livable City of Karachi (CLICK) operation and the proposed Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (SWEEP).
This decision was taken in a meeting Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali held with World Bank delegation led by Catalina Marulanda, Practice Manager-South Asia, Urban here on Tuesday at CM House.
The other delegation members were Lixin Gu, Program Leader, Sustainable Development, Suhaib Rasheed, Urban Specialist. The chief minister was assisted by Minister Local Government Syed Nasir Shah, Chairperson P&D Nahid Shah, Principal Secretary to CM Sajid jamal Abro, Secretary Local Government Roshan Shaikh, MD Sindh Solid Waste Management Authority (SSWMA) Asif Ikram, PD Competitive and Livable City of Karachi (CLICK) Zubair Channa.
Shah said that an ADP scheme of 1.6 billion has been launched to improve all solid waste management disposal in the city. But we are keen to do this on scientific manner and convert it into waste to energy, he added.
The World Bank offered a $200 million SWEEP scheme to improve collection and removal of the waste from streets, drainage channels and Nadis. Under the plan garbage transfer stations in every district and further disposal at Land Site which would also be developed as waste to energy project.
The chief minister said that the city of Karachi was most beautiful but the issues of proper cleanliness have destroyed its beauty. “I am keen to make it one of the most clean city of Pakistan,” he said.
Shah constituted a committee under Chairperson P&D Naheed Shah and other members include secretary local government, MD SSWMA as its members. They would discuss modalities of the project so that final nod could be made by the chief minister.
With input from INP
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