FAISALABAD:Deputy Commissioner (DC) Muhammad Nauman Siddique has said that the district administration has launched its ‘One Week, One Tehsil’ campaign from Khurarianwala in Jaranwala tehsil, mobilising administrative departments, field teams and machinery for a comprehensive clean-sweep operation for improving civic facilities, restoring infrastructure and providing citizens a cleaner and healthier environment.
He personally supervised the operation in the field and inspected activities being carried out in different areas of Khurarianwala under the campaign, launched on his directions.
He said that the coordinated drive involved officials and field staff from relevant departments, who undertook a range of measures to improve sanitation, urban aesthetics and public spaces.
These included road lane marking, painting New Jersey barriers, kerbstones and iron railings, removing wall chalking, cleaning parks, repairing and refurbishing children’s swings, restoring green belts and pruning plants, he added.
He said that the operation also covered the restoration of streetlights, desilting of drainage channels, inspection of arrangements at pushcart markets, visits to hospitals and cleanliness work in graveyards.
He said that the campaign aimed to focus on one tehsil each week and bring all relevant departments together under a coordinated strategy to improve sanitation, restore urban and rural infrastructure and ensure the provision of basic civic amenities.
He said that the launch from Khurarianwala reflected administration’s commitment to pool available resources, manpower and machinery to deliver visible improvements in the field and provide residents with a better living environment.
He said that the initiative went beyond routine cleanliness operations, as it also focused on proper road markings, rehabilitation of parks and green belts, functional streetlights, improved drainage and making public spaces clean, safe and usable.
He directed all departments to perform their responsibilities effectively, coordinate their field activities and utilize available manpower and machinery efficiently.
He also stressed the need to maintain restored facilities to ensure that improvements remained sustainable and citizens continued to benefit from them.
He said that cleanliness, drainage improvement and urban beautification activities were being carried out through an integrated approach, with priority given to practical solutions to problems faced by residents.
Additional Deputy Commissioner for Municipal Services Anwar Ali Kanju, Assistant Commissioner Jaranwala Ziaullah Gondal, Assistant Commissioner Samundri Mian Adnan Atif, Assistant Commissioner Saddar Faisal Shehzad, and officials and field teams from Suthra Punjab, District Council, Local Government, Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA), WASA, Municipal Corporation and the PERA Force participated in the operation.