LAHORE: The administration of the Lahore Waste Management Company on Tuesday took action against absent and work-thieving employees by dismissing 320 officials from service.

According to a notification, the services of 122 regular employees were also surrendered to the MCL.

`The carelessness in the matter of cleanliness of Lahore city will not be tolerated. In the last 3 months, so far, 750 employees have been dismissed from service for stealing work and taking long leaves without notice,` said Ali Anan Qamar, LWMC CEO in a statement.

`Employees getting 30-consecutive-day leave without notice are to be removed from service,` he added.

He said the entire system of the LWMC is being digitised. Applications are being used to track field worker attendance and vehicle travel time to and from workshops.

`Digital registration of stock in the workshops has been formally started. All the workshops are being monitored with the help of modern CCTV cameras, he maintained.