The citizens of Karachi would soon be paying the authorities to lift garbage from their neighborhoods.

According to an interview Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) Managing Director Zubair Ahmed Channa gave to SAMAA, the World Bank has provided funding for the board to create an app to charge citizens for garbage collection.

This has been done after the SSWMB’s efforts to convince SSGCL to add the garbage collection tariff to its bill bore no fruit. 

Channa told SAMAA a software was also being developed, at an estimated cost of Rs40 million to Rs50 million, to automate the revenue collection system.

It is being said that the charges for garbage collection will vary based on the locality.

The garbage fee would be Rs100 per month for low-income areas, Rs200 per month for middle-income areas, and Rs300 per month for high-income areas.

The fee would not be implemented in the city’s six cantonment boards which are out of SSWMB’s jurisdiction.

Industrial units will also pay these charges with small industrial units paying between Rs2000 and Rs4000, medium industrial units between Rs4000 and Rs6000 and large units between Rs6000 and Rs10000.

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