{"id":67534,"date":"2020-07-04T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67534"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T12:14:17","slug":"cleanliness-drive-begins-in-karachi-under-click-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cleanliness-drive-begins-in-karachi-under-click-initiative.html","title":{"rendered":"Cleanliness drive begins in Karachi under CLICK initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday released a press statement announcing its intention to clean 38 big drains in the city \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of the World Bank (WB)\u2019s \u2018Competitive &amp; Livable City of Karachi (CLICK)\u2019 project, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kmc-city-council-approves-pkr-24-845bn-budget.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KMC city council approves PKR 24.845bn budget<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This part of the CLICK initiative is estimated to cost USD 8 billion, and will take 45 days to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cleaning drive was inaugurated by Mayor Wasim Akhtar and Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah in the city\u2019s Mehmoodabad neighbourhood. On the occasion, the minister stated that drain blockages were a major issue in the city, but that the problem would soon be resolved with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-wb-launch-click-improve-local-government.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Bank<\/a> (WB). He added that in order to ensure that garbage from these drains was properly disposed of in the designated landfill sites, the government would be employing the help of the National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-cm-orders-drain-cleaning-ahead-of-monsoon-spell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh CM orders drain cleaning ahead of monsoon spell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Akhtar pointed out that due to negligence, the city\u2019s rain drains had been converted into sewerage drains. He expressed his concern over the situation, as the predicted rain spells in the city can lead to an urban flood. He revealed that <em>nullahs<\/em> spanning over 265 kilometres in length would be cleaned in the said drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday released a press statement announcing its intention to clean 38 big drains in the city \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of the World Bank (WB)\u2019s \u2018Competitive &amp; Livable City of Karachi (CLICK)\u2019 project, according to news sources. Read: KMC city council approves PKR 24.845bn budget This part of the CLICK initiative is estimated to cost USD 8 billion, and will take 45 days to complete. The cleaning drive was inaugurated by Mayor Wasim Akhtar and Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah in the city\u2019s Mehmoodabad neighbourhood. On the occasion, the minister stated that drain blockages were a major issue in the city, but that the problem would soon be resolved with the help of the World Bank (WB). He added that in order to ensure that garbage from these drains was properly disposed of in the designated landfill sites, the government would be employing the help of the National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK).\u00a0 Read: Sindh CM orders drain cleaning ahead of monsoon spell Mayor Akhtar pointed out that due to negligence, the city\u2019s rain drains had been converted into sewerage drains. He expressed his concern over the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,20385],"tags":[33648,33646,33647,21890],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-development-projects","9":"tag-cleanliness-drive","10":"tag-cleanliness-drive-begins-in-karachi-under-click-initiative","11":"tag-click-initiative","12":"tag-world-bank-wb","13":"cat-15181-id","14":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cleanliness drive begins in Karachi under CLICK initiative - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday released a press statement announcing its intention to clean 38 big drains in the city\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cleanliness-drive-begins-in-karachi-under-click-initiative.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cleanliness drive begins in Karachi under CLICK initiative - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday released a press statement announcing its intention to clean 38 big drains in the city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cleanliness-drive-begins-in-karachi-under-click-initiative.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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