EDITORIAL: Residents of Karachi will surely welcome the KMC`s plan to mechanise the work of sweeping the City roads as well as that of garbage collection. It proposes to import six more mechanical sweepers. ...

This will enable the Corporation to meet the shortage of sweepers. ... Mechanisation will doubtless be an immense help to cleanliness in the City which during the last 27 years has lost the honour ofbeing one of the cleanest cities of the subcontinent.

The City`s tremendous expansion and its ever-growing population ... pose problems for those responsible for ... a clean atmosphere. But it is true ... that the funds available at the disposal of the KMC have grown enormously too. The KMC`s responsibility is in no way diminished by the growth of the City`s population. That its efforts have not produced adequate results is evident from the piles of garbage that one can see almost at every second street corner, particularly in ... the old city. The few days when the KMC`s sweepers were on strike recently were nightmares for even the residents of the posh areas. ... There is no gainsaying the fact that the number of sweepers ... for a City of four million is grossly inadequate.