The Punjab Provincial Development Working Party approved Rs 4.7 billion for Khadem-e-Punjab Saaf Dehaat Programme in its 41st meeting of current fiscal year 2017-18 presided over by Chairman P&D Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan here on Friday. Secretary and all members of P&D provincial secretaries and other senior representatives of the concerned department attended the meeting.
Official sources told Business Recorder that the 'Saaf Dehaat Programme' will make sure the cleaning of drains, street sweeping and collection of solid waste from the village streets. The disposal of solid waste from the villages and elimination of stagnant water from these villages will improve the general environment and healthy conditions in countryside.
In Punjab 70 million people residing in rural areas generate approximately 20,000 tons per day of municipal waste. There are thousands of waste heaps lying in the rural landscape of Punjab destroying its beauty and future of population living in the country. There are risks of diseases as well as accumulation of pollutants in to the food chain. With the passage of time and use of modern commodities nature of the waste in rural areas has shifted from nature friendly organic to plastic and other dangerous ingredients...
They said that funds approved by the PPDWP would be spent through local government bodies on (a) Desilting of drains of villages (b) Sweeping and cleaning of streets of villages (c) Lifting of solid waste / heaps of garbage in the villages and (d) Transportation and dump off solid waste to the designated dump/landfill sites at UC level.
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