Garbage : The issue of Karachi

Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan and seventh populous city of world . People from every part of Pakistan come to Karachi, therefore it is known as mini Pakistan. Unfortunately city has not got enough  attention from Gov. Law and order situation of city is worst than ever. 

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/which-are-the-world-s-most-polluted-cities/

Local departments, which are responsible to maintain city like KDA, KMC, water board etc. are incompetent the work force is either incompetent or corrupt. Performance level of these departments is very low. There is no such mechanism for purchase and maintenance  machinery. Funds are not only reason, corruption, political involvement are also big issues. There are large number of people working in these department, who neither have sufficient experience nor education related to their work.

Local government election held in Dec 2015 , but local government system is week as compared to developed nations .In addition with this people  don’t own city. As a citizen we should take care of our city and play positive role in improving things . 

Funds are also one of the main reasons. Funds are not available for machinery and maintains of infrastructure. Large number of work force and machinery required to move thousands of tons garbage out of city. Recycling plants are also required to utilize the garbage effectively.

Initiatives

Fixit

Iqra university student Alamagir khan started a campaign with a unique style he started to fix main holes with few fellows and then pasted the pic of CM Sindh on it to show the protest this activity got viral overnight initially on social media then on electronic media this was the first major initiative towards this campaign this brave man worked hard in a city like Karachi. He went in all areas with his team irrespective of which cast community lives in that particular area. This campaign put pressure on Sindh GOV, which was doing nothing at that time.

JDC

Jaffaria disaster cell is one of the re known NGOs of Pakistan. This NGO started 15 days campaign named Ab Hoga Saaf Karachi to clean garbage of city. Campaigned ended on the meeting with newly appointed CM Sindh and with his commitments to clean Karachi.

I think most of people of Karachi have the problem of sinus this disease is caused by dust. Diseases are spreading due polluted environment of city. 

(Dawn news,)

Above status is of overall Pakistan , which shows the situation of air pollution in country

Solutions

Awareness campaign

Government should run awareness campaign to create awareness about the effects of garbage and pollution on daily life of people and how to control this issue.

Local government

Improved local government system can also be helpful for this because in local government people have access to their representative they can go for resolution and local representative have more access and information are problem than other.

Improvement in departments

Departments, which are responsible for this job must be improved in terms of work force sleeping employees etc. They must be accountable for their actions also there must corruption free environment for better performance, professionals who have background and experience must be hired in order to work effectively.

Increase funds and accountability

Government should take this as a priority and increases funds to purchase new machinery and increase work force and for new projects.  

Monitoring and law

There should be a monitoring committee to monitor the lope holes and wrong doings also there is need of law to limit every one doing wrong things

Plastic bags

Government should stop manufacturing of plastic bags.