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| SMC has no funds for Swachh Bharat Mission! | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 7: On one hand when Government of India claims of providing huge funds for better sanitation to states under the national flagship programme Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has revealed that they have been provided no funds under this clean India programme.
In a reply provided to a Srinagar based RTI Activist, the SMC 's Public Information Officer (PIO) has revealed that Corporation has not received any funds under SBM which is being implemented across country from last more than one and a half years.
Dr Mushtaq Khan a noted RTI activist affiliated with J&K RTI Movement had sought details from SMC about funds allocated under SBM.
Mushtaq who has done a commendable work on highlighting the shortcomings of SMC and pollution in Dal lake wanted to know about the works being executed by SMC.
"I was shocked to know that not a single penny has been provided to SMC under this programme" said Dr Mushtaq while talking to Early Times.
"We can't blame only the officials at Secretariat level for this delay, but the officials of SMC especially its Commissioner are also equally responsible for not making any communication with Government towards allocation of funds under SBM " Dr Mushtaq added
Pertinent to mention that SMC have failed to fulfill dream of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed vis a vis using its state of art technologies for managing Municipal Solid Waste in Srinagar city.
The corporation miserably failed to manage the solid waste in Srinagar and it is under target of National Green Tribunal (NGT) as well.
In May last year Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had stressed upon J&K Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) to use state-of-the-art technologies in their ongoing solid waste management projects.
He had called upon ERA to prepare plan for futuristic projects which could be taken up under Tranche III of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded loans. ERA could not prepare these kind of projects.
"Mufti sahib was very keen about making Srinagar and Jammu cities clean and green but the Municipal Corporations in both the cities especially SMC failed to fulfill his dreams and ERA also could not take his dream projects to logical the conclusion.
It is a matter of concern that SMC which was directed by the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed to install mechanical segregators at ACHAN landfill site costing only 1 to 2 crores, never went ahead and instead planned to install an obsolete waste to energy plant costing hundreds of crores" says Mohammad Ramzan Khan an environmental activist from Srinagar.
Environmental experts say that is the prime responsibility of SMC to abide by requirement of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Rules 2000, which are being further tightened up in the revised version likely to be notified by Ministry of Environment and Forest GoI soon. |
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