Who runs Lahore's waste system now?

An official report shows LWMC running the Lahore system in October 2025. A new law then set out a transfer to Suthra. We still do not have the Lahore records showing when that handover happened.

Verified: LWMC operated Lahore in October 2025.Open: the Lahore transfer date, succession record and current Shadman operator.

Responsibility chain

What we can answer. What remains open.

Current operator open

01
Legal function
Verified
The 2025 Local Government Act assigns solid waste to upper-tier local governments. It gives Union Councils a complaint-pursuit role. The 2026 Suthra Act adds a separate authority and a conditional succession process.
02
Geographic match
Verified
The June 2026 sanitation bill names Data Gunj Bakhsh Town and DGBT-UC-198 for the observed connection. The official 2025 Eid plan separately names Shadman Main Boulevard, Shadman Chowk and Shadman Market routes.
03
Asset owner
Open
The 2025 system report sends secondary waste to Lakhodair. It does not identify who owns the bin, enclosure or vehicle serving this point.
04
Controller
Open
The Local Government Act keeps a pre-existing agency in place until control is transferred. The Suthra Act requires a transfer date and completed succession. We have not found the Lahore instruments.
05
Operator
Open
LWMC operation is verified for October 2025. No current ordinary-day Shadman route operator or zone team has been verified.
06
Money
Open
For FY2022-23, AGP records a PKR 20,315.89 million final budget and PKR 22,236.06 million audited expenditure for LWMC as a whole. No Shadman route budget or payment certificate has been matched.
07
Contractor
Open
No current Shadman route contract has been verified.
08
Complaint
Verified
Call 1139. The official Suthra site also provides complaint filing and tracking.
09
Oversight
Open
AGP audited LWMC and recorded unresolved observations. Its Audit Year 2023-24 report says PAC meetings had not been convened for the listed LWMC audit years. Later PAC action and current street-level supervision remain open.
10
Elected accountability
Verified
The 2025 Act gives a Union Council a role in pursuing service complaints. The planned Model Town Corporation and its Union Councils are not operating.

Start here

Report a missed collection or street-cleaning problem

These are verified public routes. No response-time standard or routine appeal route has been verified.

Waste helpline1139
Register complaintOpen
Track complaintOpen

Money

What the company-wide figures tell us

These periods answer different questions. The audit reports what was spent. The later budget reports what was planned.

Audited · FY2022-23

Final budget: PKR 20.32bn
Audited expenditure: PKR 22.24bn
Audit observations: PKR 5.69bn

These audit observations were still unresolved in the report. They have not become final loss findings.

Budget · FY2024-25

Total planned receipts: PKR 18.50bn
Punjab receipts: PKR 17.50bn
Total planned expenditure: PKR 20.54bn

The budget alone does not show what was released or spent. The statement covers the company as a whole.

Open the audited record Open the budget record

At Shadman Main Market

The only named Shadman route we found was temporary

The current sanitation bill places this connection in the legacy Data Gunj Bakhsh Town and DGBT-UC-198 billing geography. A separate plan names Shadman routes during Eid-ul-Adha 2025. Neither record establishes the current ordinary-day beat or contractor.

Place match: The June 2026 sanitation bill names Data Gunj Bakhsh Town and DGBT-UC-198 for the observed connection. The official 2025 Eid plan separately names Shadman Main Boulevard, Shadman Chowk and Shadman Market routes.
Current operator: LWMC operation is verified for October 2025. No current ordinary-day Shadman route operator or zone team has been verified.
Next decisive records: The Lahore Agency notification, Authority transfer date, succession record, citywide sanitation billing-area register, current Shadman zone map, operator, contract, route roster, route budget and later PAC action.

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Evidence

The records behind this answer

The answer combines law, a dated operating report, audited accounts and current public complaint channels.