Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR ( AJK), (Parliament Times) : UK- based International social welfare outfit – Muslim Hands and state-run Mangla Dam Housing Authority (MDHA) Thursday jointly launched the ‘Solid Waste Management Project’, at the New City, the newly carved mega residential sector exclusively meant for the Mangla dam affectees.
Visiting founder Chairman of Muslim Hands United Kingdom Pir Syed Lakht Hussain and Director General MDHA Chaudhry Muhammad Mansha Naqshbandi inaugurated the project, one of its own kind in AJK.
“The main purpose of this project is to convert solid waste into ‘Nautral Compost’, to recycle and reuse other forms of waste (such as plastic) to the most viable extent. To facilitate this purpose a waste management center with the name of ‘Integrated Resource Recovery Center’ (IRRC), has been developed in New City vicinity”, Muslim Hands spokesperson Raja Qamar Atta told our Special Jammu and Kashmir Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao on this occasion.
” The IRRC is among one of just four other such centers in all of Pakistan, and holds the distinction of being the first (and so far only) waste management center in Azad Jammu and Kashmir”, Atta said.
Speaking on this occasion, the MH founder Chief Pir Lakht Hassnain and DG MDHA Muhammad Mansha Naqshbandi said that to keep lake-City of Mirpur neat n clean and free of pollution, identical projects will be launched at the required sites to ensure the overall health and well-being of the community under the joint development programs.
They thanked all the stakeholders for setting up this project and expressed the hope that the scope of this project will spread to other areas.
Head of Programe Muslim Hands Syed Anjum Bilal Kazmi in his detailed presentation, with reference to different negative impacts of improper waste management activities, highlighted negative repercussions of open dumping, burning of waste, and dumping into water bodies).
He also highlighted the negative consequences of the common and potentially hazardous waste disposal activities including Land pollution, air pollution (smog), and water pollution.
Kazmi emphasised the need and significance of the project at all required sites to combat the pollution urging for such interventions to ensure a clean, safe, and sustainable environment for all, he added.
The ceremony was attended among others by Yasir Riaz (Deputy Commissioner), Ch. Sajid Aslam (Additional Commissioner), Raja Naveed Akhtar Goga (Chairman District Council), Ch. Usman Ali Khalid (Mayor, Mirpur), Syed Sabir Hussain Shah (President Chamber of Commerce and Industries), Yasir Bashir Chaudhry (Director State MDA, , Inamul Haque (Director Works, MDHA), Prince Aurangzeb (Execurive Engineer Building), Mugheeth Riaz (Chief Officer ), Raja Shakeel Ahmad Khan (Principal Vocational Training Institute ), Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif (Former Chairman MDA ), Asif Rathore (Executive Manager, Muslim Hands Mirpur), Syed Anjum Bilal Kazmi (Head of Programs, Muslim Hands Mirpur), Qamar Atta (PR Manager, Muslim Hands, Mirpur), Councilors of New City, and civil society representatives.
