According to report on the inaugural day of the campaign, Sept 21, total 212 dumpers lifted 7,152 tonnes of garbage and dumped at temporary GTS by making 848 trips. In the sweeping and garbage lifting work 1,263 workers were engaged. On Sept 22, the garbage lifting work was made more organised and lifted 13,181 tonnes of garbage through 1,253 trips. 147 dumpers were used on which 1,134 workers were used. During the two-day campaign 20,306 tonnes of garbage was lifted.
The highest quantity of 2,500 tonnes of garbage has been lifted from Model Colony, 2,200 tonnes from Korangi, 2,000 tonnes from Shah Faisal Colony, 1,540 tonnes from Landhi. The chief minister urged the Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Shah to make the campaign more effective and organised. For monitoring garbage lifting work, the chief minister has constituted and notified an 18-member Monitoring Committee. On every district three ministers have been assigned the monitoring work.
District South will be monitored by provincial ministers Murtaza Wahab, Awais Qadir Shah and Special Assistant to CM Syed Riaz Ahmed. District Central will be looked after by Shahla Raza, Mir Aijaz Jakhrani and Special Assistant Rashid Rabbani. District West will be monitored by Syed sardar Shah, Shabir Bijarani and Special Assistant Waqar Mehdi.
East will be monitored by Ismail Rahu, Faraz Ahmed Dero and Special Assistant Qasim Naveed Qamar. Korangi has been assigned to Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh and Jam Ikramullah Dharejo. Malir has been given to Murtaza Baloch, Taimur Talpur and Special Assistant Nawab Wassan. These monitoring committees would start visiting the areas from where garbage was being lifted while the chief minister himself would be visiting the areas to witness the situation.
The chief minister appreciated the hard work and spirit of district administration and DMCs in cleaning this megalopolis city of Karachi. Sewer Choking Continues: MD Water Board Asadullah Khan has reported to the chief minister that another 48-inch diameter sewer at Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road (behind Avari Tower) was stuffed with heavy stones and boulders, as a result not only the gutter choked completely but dismantled. The entire area inundated with gutter water.
The water board workers started efforts to take out stones and boulders from the gutter late Sunday night and completed their work on Monday morning and also cleaned the area. The chief minister said it was totally unacceptable and would not be tolerated any more. He directed Commissioner Karachi to go through CCTV recording and identify the culprits and register criminal case against them. Shah said with the arrest of one culprit the entire gang and group would be exposed along with their original conspirators. "I know them they are so-called claimants and friends of Karachi and I sure we would expose them very soon," he said.