Doha: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment represented by Doha Municipality will launch a major campaign tomorrow to remove abandoned vehicles from public places.
The campaign will cover many areas in Doha and will be be carried out in collaboration with the Committee for Removing Abandoned Vehicles. The move aims at ensuring health and hygiene at public places and to keep the cities clean and beautiful.
The Ministry has urged citizens and residents to report about abandoned vehicles on its call center number 184, website or its mobile application. They can also report about abandoned vehicles directly to the Committee for Abandoned Vehicles by calling on 33238885 from 6am to 1pm.
Hundreds of abandoned vehicles were removed from many places including Madinat Khalifa, Umm Guwaili, Al Khor and Al Shamal in the campaigns launched during second quarter (Q2) of this year.
The Monitoring Department at Doha Municipality removed a total of 419 abandoned vehicles during months long campaign launched in April and May in the industrial support services areas of the municipalities of Doha, Al Wakra, Al Khor-and-Al Zakhira and Al Shamal.
The Department caught a total of 721 abandoned vehicles during the campaign which aimed at rectify the legal situations of establishments, institutions, companies, workshops and garages, and to spread awareness of the municipal laws to keep these areas clean and hygienic.
The campaign came within the framework of the Ministry’s concerns towards industrial support services areas after implementation of the infrastructure development projects providing sewage networks, new streets and many other facilities.
The campaign, launched by Doha Municipality, represented by the Municipal Monitoring Department, on April 1 at the industrial support services areas, will continue throughout this year (2019).
Under the campaign, the monitoring teams educated large number of people in the industrial areas about laws and violations, building regulations, encroachments of public and private properties, food control, hygiene among many more.
The objectives of the campaign were also to raise awareness of the owners of factories and operators of the workshops in the industrial area in a bid to reduce municipal violations related to health and hygiene and other types as well.
The campaign also aimed to curb the phenomenon of abandoned vehicles on road sides, which distort the general appearance, as well as to protect the public facilities at industrial areas and to make them model place. Under the campaign over 5,000 awareness brochures were distributed. The brochures contained instructions for owners of garages and workshops, purpose of the campaign, introduction of hygiene laws, food monitoring, workers’ accommodations and rules of advertising and building regulations.
