Half of city’s public toilets shut
High expenditure blamed for discontinuation of facility in past two years
The number of public toilets in the city should have been doubled in view of the increasing population and number of regular commuters. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Despite the population of the provincial capital increasing to about 15 million, the number of public toilets operating in the city has dropped in recent years.
The metropolitan corporation has failed to build new public toilets, while 12 out of the 25 facilities present earlier have been closed during the past two years because of high expenses. The population of Lahore is estimated to have risen to about 15 million, of whom about three million travel in the city daily.
Waste backlog not yet cleared from Lahore roads
National
March 10, 2021
LAHORE: Heaps of rubbish and garbage have not so far been removed from majority of the City roads despite Lahore Waste Management Company’s (LWMC) claim that it has started a drive to clear waste backlog from the City areas.
Talking to The News, many citizens have complained that uncollected waste has become a common sight, reflecting incompetency of present government. They said during the tenure of the previous government people from all over the country used to give examples of cleanliness in Lahore and even teams of Sindh government visited Lahore to know cleanliness system for Karachi.