PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Wednesday inaugurated the rickshaw service for collection and dumping of solid waste from Peshawar and its adjacent areas.

He formally handed over new machinery and vehicles costing Rs80.5 million to the Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) in a ceremony held here.

The new fleet of vehicles included 20 rickshaw dumpers, 18 containers, four water bowsers, two Armorel trucks and one excavator.

This new system of solid waste management would soon be introduced at all divisional levels, he added.

Inclusion of new fleet in the solid waste management system would further improve and strengthen the cleanliness in the city, he added.

The chief minister said the government had allocated Rs300 million for WSSP in the budget so that it could be upgraded on modern lines.

Responding to a question the chief minister said that the system of local government would also be introduced in the newly merged tribal districts of erstwhile FATA and local body elections will also be held in these new tribal districts very soon.