KABUL (SW): The Kabul Municipality (KM) has vowed to privatize the garbage collection and waste-management in the capital city.
Interim Mayor Abdullah Habibzai informed journalists on Sunday efforts are underway to streamline the garbage collection, waste-management and other municipality affairs. He informed the privatization drive would be initially tested in five districts in the city.
He acknowledged the KM lacks the capacity to handle all the garbage generated in the city on daily basis. Highlighting the importance of private sector, he said it would help overcome the issues of corruption and lack of capacity at the KM. “We wish to completely privatize the sanitary affairs in which the Kabul Municipality would act as policy maker while the citizens would be monitoring the services provided to them”, he added.
He informed a contract has been signed with the UN-Habitat to clean the Kabul River, and police would be deployed to make sure it is not polluted again.
The KM also inked a deal on the occasion with the Mayhew Animal Home, a U.K. based private company, to take care of the stray dogs in the city.
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