According to the Islamabad Metropolitan Council (IMC) Sanitation Director Sardar Khan Zimri, the garbage generation in the city’s commercial areas has reduced by 40 to 50 percent. Islamabad is cleaner than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as residents have been less mobile during the lockdown.
According to the IMC Sanitation Director Zimri, the commercial areas produced an average of 100 tonnes of garbage before pandemic on a daily basis. However, since the lockdown due to COVID-19 began, the number has reduced to 50-60 tonnes of garbage, making Islamabad cleaner than before.
“As per an estimate, our total garbage collection has also reduced from 600 tonnes to 500 tonnes due to selective lockdowns in the federal capital,” he added.
What does all of this mean for the IMC workers? Sanitation Director Zimri stated that more than 200 sanitary workers have been disengaged from the main commercial markets of the city due to the reduced work. These workers have now been sent to villages, where the garbage collection was not regular in the past.
“The situation provides us an opportunity to launch an aggressive cleanliness campaign in Islamabad’s urban and rural areas and to ensure a clean and green environment for the federal capital,” he said.
Zimri added that the focus nowadays is on the ‘Clean and Green Islamabad Campaign’ – cleansing of nullahs and storm drains is the main objective for the IMC so that other diseases such as malaria and dengue do not prevail.
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