RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) and the district administration on Thursday chalked out a plan to keep the city clean and neat during Eidul Azha by disposing of offal of sacrificial animals at the landfill site and ensuring implementation of Covid-19 and Congo virus standard operating procedures (SOPs).Addressing a press conference, Deputy Commissioner Tahir Farooq and RWMC Managing Director Awais Manzoor Tarrar said 3,700 workers and 435 vehicles would be deployed to keep the city clean in three days of Eidul Azha.

They said a control room had been set up at the Civil Defence Department offices to monitor the cleanliness drive.

The cleanliness plan in all seven tehsils of the district has been prepared under which waste would be disposed of outside the tehsils.

The DC said a flag march of sanitation vehicles will be held on Saturday on Murree Road to inspect their preparedness.

`In view of the prediction about heavy rains by Met Office, the administration has made separate plans to ensure cleanliness and avoid a flood-like situation during Eid holidays,` he said.He said the district administration will work in collaboration with the cantonment authorities and the Islamabad capital territory administration to clear all border areas with joint ef forts.

Rawalpindi and Islamabad administrations will collaborate to end the menace of dengue virus also. `A joint working board will be established soon to solve pending issues with Islamabad administration,` he added.

Talking about Murree, the deputy commissioner said a shuttle service would be arranged between Murree Lower Topa and Bhara Kahu for three days of Eid.

`Families will travel through the shuttle service,` he said.

The RWMC chief said that 22 major joint sacrificial points had been identified in the district, including 13 in Rawalpindi and nine in other tehsils. In these areas, the RWMC will provide all f acilities. Four sanitary workers will be deployed at eachpoint and arrangements will be made to dispose of the waste immediately.

He said that the workers would wash the areas with phenyl. RWMC would distribute waste bags while pamphlets inscribed with helpline numbers would be distributed among citizens.

`The cleanliness work will be started a day before Eid and areas around mosques, imambargahs and Eidgahs would be washed,` he said.

He said special bags would be distributed among people to dispose of offal and animal waste and the sanitary workers would collect the waste from houses and designated points.

Mr Tarrar said 51 transfer stations would be established from where waste would be collected and then transported to Losar landfill site. `As many as 14 fixed points and 37 mobile transfer stations will be set up,` he said.