Karachi the biggest city of
Pakistan, now a days facing very critical situation due to the irresponsible
behavior of government of Sindh. “From the city of lights it become
city of Garbage”. No one is able to take over on the situation of Karachi
city, in this situation a man name Alamgir from Karachi, take a stand
for this city. He is from those who has enthusiasm for the betterment of city
and he choose a unique idea to highlight the problems of Karachi and to convey
the message of common people (aam admi) to higher officials.
Social campaign
Alamgir khan start a campaign naming
#fix it on social media to highlight the problems of common people.
According to this campaign Alamgir draw a sketch of CM SINDH along open manholes with spray colour
on university road at mid night and
write a short message #fixit for him and took snaps which goes viral on
social media. Alamgir fully appreciated by the common public and many of them
joining his campaign officially. He also introduce #FIXIT Mobile App for
convenience of common people.
CM’s Reaction
Alamgir magic’s work, he was succeed
to awoke the sleeping beauties of city so, in the reaction of his efforts chief
minister called administrator Karachi and lambasting on him and said: “Is
sealing gutters also my job?” he gave him two days deadline to solve this
issue but unfortunately they failed.
Work Of Alamgir
- After saw non serious behavior of government he decided to take his campaign to the next level. He and his team arranged manholes covers at a cost of 13,000 and the group sealed over 42 manholes on university road.
- ·The next step of #fix it is to “sweep Karachi”. For this they collected some funds from public to arrange the tractors.
- ·From 9 feb 2016, he start work on it and collect garbage from residential area “korangi” then they reached other areas of the city.
- ·He gave a deadline of one week to the CM Sindh to clean the city but government did not take it serious so he decided to give protest in front of CM house Karachi. which also become the arrest reason of him.
- Few weeks ago he made “wall of kindness” beside the Iqra university north nazimabad campus.
Harassment by the government
From the very first day he got
threats to stop his campaign. One week before he get areested by Karachi police
and spend a night in model jail.
Now the point is that if a person
can awake the sleeping beauties of city and took bold steps so, why we all
Pakistani’s will not able to take such a bold step to awake the minister and
president too….
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