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| After yrs of nuisance, NBCC hijacking city's sanitation for undue payment | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: At a time when environment conservation initiatives are being carried out with added urgency to save the world from imminent environmental catastrophe, NBCC has allegedly hijacked Jammu's sanitation for a part pending payment close to 20 cr. which it is reportedly expecting without completing the project.
NBCC had been entrusted with the project of revamping city's sanitation at a cost of Rs. 129 cr in 2006 but after putting the city in gross inconvenience and untold misery for its residents for ten long years, wherein all roads and lanes of the city were dug out for years, the project is still not complete and sources divulged that the corporation has deliberately with held the vital job works to arm twist the Government for clearing its pending payment , even though it is still far away from completing the project that included construction of an STP at Bhagwati Nagar.
The issue came to the light when Jammu Municipal Corporation issued notices to several city hotels seeking their response to its earlier directions to them regarding setting up of solid waste treatment plants (STP) in them. Sources informed that city hotels with more than specified number of rooms were asked by JMC to put in place STPs in their properties, but after the sanitation project of the city was allocated to the NBCC, the hotels were eventually relived of this liability as same was part of the NBCC project.
A delegation of hoteliers recently met the commissioner JMC and apprised her of the facts after the fresh notices were issued to them. "Certain officers in the JMC and the SPCB (State Pollution Control Board) are deliberately concealing the facts to target the hoteliers, while the fact is that the NBCC is deliberately delaying the connections of the hotels to the main sewer as it has not been paid the balance payment" said a hotelier, preferring not to be named. "SPCB is also a party in the vilification campaign as it gives them an opportunity to victimize the hoteliers for installing their STPs despite knowing that he onus was now on NBCC to complete the sewerage project" he added.
It is pertinent to mention here that the skewed project that faced allegations of deep rooted corruption has already missed four deadlines, prolonging the plight of the people of Jammu for close to a decade. |
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