Chinese state-owned company gets contract to shift landfill sites out of major Sindh cities
Gwadar Pro
Karachi: Chinese State-owned company Denzo International has been awarded contract to shift the landfill sites out of the major cities of the Pakistani Sindh province.
Sindh Provincial Minister for Local Government and Public Health Engineering Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said the contract had been awarded in merit and the Sindh government expected quick and satisfactory work.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, he mentioned that the landfill site was being shifted out of the Larkana city as well as the major cities of the province including Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur to keep them clean.
“The contract has been awarded on merit to Chinese company Denzo International, which belongs to the Chinese government,” he added.
The step, he noted, was taken on the special directives of Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah.
“Our team has intensified the development work to providing all the basic facilities to the people,” the minister said.
The minister stated that the provincial government, through the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) and the contracted Chinese company will start the work soon.
“The solid waste management operation with Chinese firm for lifting and dumping of garbage from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana will be started soon,” Shah maintained.
Shah contended that the present Sindh government was taking every possible step to provide all the basic facilities to the people of the rural, urban and backward areas of the province.
He underlined that the Denzo International Company in Larkana was cleaning the city in the first phase and in the second phase it would pick up garbage from house to house from December.
He stressed that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has special instructions to provide every basic facility to the people at their doorsteps.
In this regard, he elaborated, the Denzo International Company has started work so that the sanitation and cleanliness of cities could be improved.
The minister hoped that that establishment of Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) would solve the problem of sanitation in the major cities of the province.
