Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Mahmood Khan has directed the Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP), the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA), the Cantonment Board Peshawar, and the administrations of the city’s four towns to jointly devise a sanitation plan for the city, a news source reported.
For this purpose, a meeting was held with representatives of the WSSP, PDA, Cantonment Board and town administrations, chaired by Chief Executive Officer WSSP Syed Zafar Ali Shah. The attendees discussed quantity of waste collected on a daily basis, its transportation and dumping, and the data available on sanitation services.
The chair stated that the WSSP had been training all of its field staff to increase their efficiency and build their capacity in their respective fields. The WSSP now has a skilled workforce and is also modernising its machinery, he added. Shah offered to extend the WSSP’s help to train officers of the authorities present; a proposal which was welcomed.
Shah said that the PDA, the Cantonment Board and the towns had to decide on the kind of help they needed WSSP to extend. They could transport the waste to WSSP’s transfer stations on their own or the sanitation service could collect the waste from their localities.
He added that the WSSP had planned to develop a landfill site to control the waste’s environmental impact. The landfill is going to be covered with lime while the surroundings will be fumigated to prevent mosquito breeding and eradicate the unpleasant smell.
