In this connection, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar directed the concerned officials to take necessary steps to improve LWMC capacity along with improving its financial management. Similarly, the government is taking steps to curtail unnecessary expenditures of LWMC and improve its performance. It is also planning to divide LWMC into different zones and the work on it is expected to start very soon.
While presiding over a meeting held here on Thursday to review future model of cleanliness for Lahore as well as different matters pertaining to LWMC, the CM said that the solid waste management system should be better than the past after the conclusion of the contract with the foreign company.
"The LWMC and other line departments should be fully prepared in the wake of the emerging scenario. No complaint should arise with regard to cleanliness," he added.
He directed that professionals should be included in the LWMC board and it should move forward as a vibrant and active entity. He said that steps relating to the cleanliness of the city should be adopted under rules and regulations and added that inquiries will be held where discrepancies and irregularities have taken place.
"Nation's money will not be allowed to be wasted and the company has to deliver at any cost," he asserted.
The CM was briefed that city's cleanliness agreement with the foreign company will end next year and the LWMC board has given approval to the appointment of transaction advisor.
The meeting was also attended by provincial Ministers Raja Basharat, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Hashim Jawan Bakht, Advisor Dr Salman Shah, secretaries of local government, P&D, Finance and Law departments, Commissioner Lahore division and others attended the meeting.