CAIRO: The Giza governorate's local council has decided to provide urgent assistance to the Italian cleaning company operating in Giza's main areas to make up for the company's recent shortfalls. Governor Sayed Abdel Aziz said that he would personally monitor these neighborhoods to boost the company's efficiency, pointing out that there were several warnings issued against it in the past. Mokhtar Aboul-Fotouh, director of public relations at the Giza cleaning and beautification agency, said that the International Company for Environmental Services [the Italian company] is facing many technical problems, especially in its fleet of garbage vehicles. . Although the company is operating with full capacity, it still couldn't fill the gap in some neighborhoods, such as Dokki, Agouza and North Giza. They had asked the agency to provide assistance in terms of workers, cars the costs of which will be deducted from the company's fees, he said. Head of the Giza cleaning and beautification agency announced earlier that the agency had allocated 165 street cleaners to Agouza, along with 121 workers in Dokki. The agency has also created a hotline to receive complaints. In 2003, the Giza governorate contracted a Spanish and an Italian companies to clean the city. The decision was based on the results of a study that revealed that the authority s revenues from monthly fees collected with electricity bills were not sufficient to keep the streets sufficiently clean. However, the Spanish company pulled out almost two years ago, leaving an overload on the Italian company, which caused the repeated failures.
