KARACHI: Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) has acquired a new kind of recycled, green earth manhole cover with frame to install in their area during the month of May.
According to a CBC spokesperson, some 400 manhole covers have been acquired from a Lahore-based organisation for the initial batch to be installed this month.
These will be installed in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) areas of phases I, II and VI. Some 150 manhole covers will be installed in phases I, II and II extension while the remaining 250 will be installed in phase VI.
These days, the stealing of manhole covers has become a menace for pedestrians as well as drivers. In order to indicate that there is a gapping manhole on the road ahead and to prevent people from falling into it, some people, who care, also take the trouble of placing a tree branch in it or a box or carton over it. Also, some manhole covers are higher in height than the road itself and pose a lethal hazard for motorcyclists and a problem for vehic