LAHORE: Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work jointly for cleaning and greening the industrial zones.
LCCI Vice President Zeshan Khalil and Farrukh Qayyum Butt from the LWMC signed the MoU on behalf of their organisations. Mian Muhammad Nawaz, Tahmina Saeed Chaudhry, Mian Zahid Javed and Rizwan Akhter were also present.
Through this accord, both organisations would initiate joint efforts to make industrial parks and zones ‘Environmental-Friendly’ by greening the city and ensuring cleanliness of markets.
LCCI Vice President Zeshan Khalil said that it was a good initiative taken by government for joint venture with foreign companies to bring paradigm shift in the overall approach of workforce, citing that contracts signed with Turkish firms in 2011 totally changed the outlook of LWMC.
With the addition of state-of-the-art equipment, he added, the efficiency of LWMC was greatly improved and the slogan – Clean Lahore – was uncompromisingly followed and the residents of Lahore witnessed unprecedented efficiency of the company. Uniformed staff, appropriate change in duty schedules, extra shifts on occasions like Eid-ul-Azha, distribution of waste bags to inhabitants, efficient collection, transportation and disposal of garbage etc. were some of the features of LWMC that were exemplary, he maintained.
