ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Federal Capital would get first Solid Waste Management System in this year after a decades to collect and dispose of the garbage of Islamabad.
In this regard, Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) all set to introduce modern solid waste management system in the city.
New solid waste management system includes front end collection, sweeping, transportation and disposal municipal waste from the metropolitan limits of MCI.
Talking to the state-run news agency, the Spokesperson of Capital Development Authority (CDA) Mazhar Hussain said that after decades of negligence, rural areas of the city would be also swept in line with modern standards.
The CDA Spokesperson said that according to the Mayor of Islamabad and Chairman CDA Sheikh Anser Aziz, with the establishment of modern solid waste management system, a promise would be fulfilled which was made to the residents during the first ever local bodies election in the Federal capital.
The Islamabad’s Mayor said that existing sanitation system was only covering the sectorial area of the city while there was no arrangement for carrying out cleanliness of the rural areas and suburbs of the city.
It was one of the main reasons due to which rural areas of the present totally different picture, he said that adding that with the establishment of MCI all such differences are being eliminated.