Overview
- Provincial leaders finalised the Suthra Punjab Eid plan in a video-link meeting on Saturday when Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz approved a Rs50,000 penalty and directed formation of vigilance squads to stop illegal dumping.
- The campaign will deploy roughly 176,000–184,000 sanitation workers plus about 8,000 temporary staff and more than 40,000 additional vehicles and machines to run 24/7 collection and disposal across the festival period.
- Authorities have mapped thousands of collection and disposal points, including about 3,800 primary centres, 3,100 dumping sites, 7,000 dumping points and roughly 4,500 special camps to process sacrificial remains.
- The province is activating digital monitoring, central control rooms, Safe City CCTV and drone surveillance alongside a dedicated helpline (1139) for complaints and aims to clear all collection sites by the third day of Eid.
- Officials will distribute millions of biodegradable waste bags (provincial tallies report up to 12 million), but municipal managers warn of limits from ageing fleets and have asked for new vehicles while promising rewards for high performance and strict accountability for failures.