Karachi:
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has become the first municipal organism in Pakistan to launch a fleet of electric bicycles, marking a step towards the ecological urban government.
The initiative was inaugurated on Friday by Mayor Murtaza Wahab in the KMC central office, where 20 bicycles were delivered to the office riders in the first phase. Each bicycle, which costs RS215,000, comes with a three -year guarantee. A load station has already been established at the KMC headquarters, with more that will be established throughout the city.
Wahab said the project would not only reduce KMC expenses, but will also help address climate change and carbon emissions. “As the responsible city government, we have decided not to buy gasoline bicycles in the future. Pink bicycles will soon also be provided to official women,” he announced.
The mayor recalled that KMC had previously changed his central office, parks and several important roads to solar energy, and similar measures were being taken for hospitals and pumping stations. He also announced that Share Faisal, Shahrah-E-Iran and Shahrah-E-Ghalib are becoming solar energy, with the project scheduled for completion before September 30.
Other green initiatives include a solar park in Kidney Hill, the conversion of the pumping stations from Malir to Solar Energy and a plan to change five of the 14 KMC hospitals to renewable energy.
Wahab urged the Federal Government to introduce a delivery scheme for low -income groups so that citizens could also change to electric vehicles.
