KUWAIT CITY, Feb 11: The Governor of the Capital, Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled, called on the Ministry of State for Municipal Affairs to intensify periodic public cleaning efforts in all regions of the governorate, and also called on the Ministry of Public Works to organize what he called care and periodic maintenance of all bridges, roads and sidewalks, and what is required to be done in this regard including maintenance and painting of signboards, ground signs, and all types of tunnels and bridges, to give a new look for the landscape, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

This came in a press statement on the sidelines of the fourth social coordination meeting which he chaired at the Governorate’s General Office headquarters, in the presence of the Director General of the Public Authority for Industry, Abdul Karim Taqi.

The meeting was also attended by the Vice-President of the Prevention Sector at the Directorate-General of Fire Department (DGFD), Major General Khaled Abdullah Fahd, and the Director of the Audit and Follow-up Department Engineer Yusef Al-Bathali, the director of the Capital Governorate’s roads and networks maintenance department at the Ministry of Public Works, Engineer Ayed Abdullah Al-Azmi, in addition to the Director of the Inspection and Control Department at the Environment Public Authority, Nada Dabbashi. Al-Khaled called on Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) to make more efforts at greenery and afforestation and to pay attention to green patches by watering them throughout the year, especially during the summer season using modern and advanced irrigation methods and stressed on the need to address the problem of neglected commercial advertisements along the streets “because of their negative effects on the general appearance”, he said.