PESHAWAR
\nWater and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) on Thursday launched \u2018Model Neighbourhood Councils\u2019 initiative to encourage and engage communities to promote sanitation, water conservation and hygiene.
\nThe initiative is being implemented in collaboration with UNICEF and Islamic Relief Pakistan under which WSSP selects neighbourhood councils at five union councils to be declared models to encourage Peshawarites to come forward and implement the initiative for the sake of keeping their surroundings clean.
\nChief Executive Officer Dr Hassan Nasir inaugurated the initiative during a ceremony held here at Quaidabad neighbourhood council in Kakshal-2. Besides, Yousefabad neighbourhood council in Zone A, Rasheed Town in zone B, Nauthia Qadim in zone C, Rahatabad in zone D will be declared as model neighbourhood councils.
\nThe locality has also been declared a model NC. The chief executive officer planted saplings under the ongoing tree plantation drive along with General Manager (operation) Riaz Ahmad Khan to promote greenery. Local elders and elected representatives of the localities were also present on the occasion.
\nEarlier, community outreach teams of WSSP formed separate male and female committees at the locality who would be responsible for keeping their concerned localities clean.
\nWSSP cleaned the entire locality, planted saplings and decorated it with flowers as well as painted walls with slogans for promotion of sanitation and water conservation. The residents would throw waste at a designated place while WSSP would pick it. The outreach teams have formed the committees at other union councils and neighbourhood councils are being selected where the initiative could be implemented.
\n\u201cAim of the initiative is to engage the community to play their part of responsibility,\u201d the chief executive officer said while speaking on the occasion.
\nHe said this would encourage other neighborhoods to team up and join hands with WSSP in keeping their localities clean.
\n\u201cSanitation is a joint responsibility that cannot be ensured without mass participation,\u201d Dr Nasir said.
\nHe added that the initiative would not only help us keep the city clean with less efforts but improve the environment that will ultimately lead to positive impacts on the health of the inhabitants and the localities.
\nThe initiative is continuation of \u2018Own a Street\u2019 programme wherein residents of the selected streets were responsible for sanitation, water connection registration and conservation.
\nWSSP also promotes waste segregation at source level and have placed three containers with different colours biodegradable, non-biodegradable and glass and paper waste at different places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) on Thursday launched \u2018Model Neighbourhood Councils\u2019 initiative to encourage and engage communities to promote sanitation, water conservation and hygiene. The initiative is being implemented in collaboration with UNICEF and Islamic Relief Pakistan under which WSSP selects neighbourhood councils at five union councils to be declared models to encourage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2047],"class_list":{"0":"post-283750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar","8":"tag-wssp"},"yoast_head":"\n