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Deputy PM, Balochistan CM inaugurate Solid Waste Management Project

Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Sarfaraz Bugti have inaugurated the Solid Waste Management Project in Quetta.

Speaking on the occasion in Quetta today, Ishaq Dar expressed happiness over the launch of state of the art solid waste management project in Quetta. He said the Quetta Waste Management Project will provide better sanitation facilities to the people.

Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti the project was completed in a short period of three months. He commended Commissioner Quetta Hamza Shafqaat and his team for starting an important project of public nature in a very short time. He said the provincial government is paying special attention to the provision of basic facilities to lessen difficulties of the people of Balochistan.

Hamza Shafqaat briefed that the Quetta Waste Management Project is the first initiative of its kind in Pakistan. He said a private company will collect garbage from door to door in the provincial capital from today. He said 1600 tons
of garbage will be collected daily and it will not incur any additional expenses on the government.

The Municipal Corporation and the private company will work to keep the provincial capital clean through multi-pronged initiatives.

Besides, Ishaq Dar and Mir Sarfaraz Bugti also inaugurated 21 new NADRA registration centers and six mobile registration vehicles. These registration centers and mobile vehicles will further facilitate the people of Balochistan’s far-flung areas to get their registration and national identity cards with utmost ease.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar inaugurated twenty-one new NADRA registration centers and six new mobile registration vehicles in Balochistan today.

Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Federal Minister for Commerce Jam Kamal Khan, Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, provincial ministers were also present.

Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar instructed federal institutions to fully cooperate with the provincial government
in providing services to the remote areas of Balochistan.

Source: Radio Pakistan