The much-hyped campaign against rats in the city has suffered after the government refused to pay citizens prize money
PESHAWAR: The much-hyped campaign against rats in the city has suffered after the government refused to pay citizens prize money.
Peshawar Nazim Muhammad Asim said that he has postponed and not suspended the decision to pay citizens prize money for killing rats. When asked if the province was short on money he said, “We have ample funds. We have Rs250 million in the accounts.”
So far only one person has been given Rs200 for killing eight rats.
Sources say that the prize money was postponed after criticism on social media about the campaign.
Now the job of killing rats has been handed over to a water and sanitation company.
Earlier this month the city administration had promised to pay Rs25 to every citizen who killed a rat, after a child at a hospital died of a rat bite.