RAWALPINDI:The Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) completed its cleanliness operation by removing all waste materials on the routes of the Ashura day processions besides sprinkling lime powder after the culmination of processions.
According to a RWMC spokesman, a comprehensive cleanliness plan, following the policy of Punjab Chief Minister (CM)Maryam Nawaz Sharif, was chalked out for Muharram processions to keep the processions routes neat and clean for the mourners.
He said that under the special cleanliness programme, all Imambargahs, procession routes and their vicinity were cleaned besides the waste containers were also emptied, adding nullahs and drains adjacent to Imambargahas had also been cleared with excavators and heavy machinery.
He said that the construction material or debris had also been removed from the routes of the procession and its adjacent areas while the relief camps had been set up at various places to carry out the cleanliness work regularly till the conclusion of Ashura’s d
ay processions.
He said that the company had cancelled the holidays of sanitary workers and deputed additional staff to ensure Ashura Muharram’s cleanliness arrangements.
Commissioner Rawalpindi Aamir Khattak, DC Hassan Waqar Cheema, and RWMC officials visited several city areas and supervised the entire operation, he added.