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| In CM's hometown, MC dumps garbage in water body | | |  Early Times Report
Bijbehara, May 8: On the hind side of aggressive campaigning by the Directorate of Urban Local Bodies (DULB) on sanitation and against illegal encroachments Municipal Committee (MC) Bhejbehera in South Kashmir which happens to be the hometown of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is dumping its garbage in the water body.
As per reliable information available with Early Times the municipal solid waste , garbage , dead animals are dumped by the Municipal Committee (MC) Bhejbehera on the banks of "Daed Kull" which is a beautiful nallah flowing along Bhejbehara - Pahalgam road, inviting a major environmental catastrophe.
"There is no concept of Solid Waste Management , Segregation at source and door to door collection of garbage in our town. Had the local municipal authorities been doing this in Bhejbehara and other towns , the things would have been different. Even the officials of local municipality are unaware about scientific disposal and segregation of bio-degradable and non biodegradable of waste material" said Mohammad Asif a Post Graduate student of Environmental Science and a local resident of Bhejbehara.
Pertinent to mention that officials of local municipality in Chadoora town of central Kashmir are seen involved in dumping all the garbage into the Doodg-Ganga nallah which flows through this town. Irony is that same water is supplied by Public Health Engineering (PHE) department to thousands of people in Budgam as well as Srinagar districts.
In Bandipora town the garbage and municipal waste is dumped in Wullarlake by local Municipal Committee. Few years back the Municipal Committee (MC) Bandipora received a grant of around 82 lakhs from Wullar Conservation and Management Authority (WUCMA) for strengthening and developing the infrastructure for scientific disposal of municipal solid waste so as to prevent any sort of pollution within and along the banks of Wular Lake.
Few months back the Wullar Conservation and Management Authority (WUCMA) Chief Executive Director (CED) shot a letter to Director Local Bodies Kashmir and expressed his serious concern that despite allocation of funds, the concerned civic body has not taken necessary measures which are mandatory under environment protection act and rules framed therein as cited above to ensure scientific disposal of municipal solid waste around the banks of Wular Lake.
Increasing population, and complete lack of a comprehensive solid waste management policy has been seen as a great challenge in cities. Huge quantity of garbage gets piled up in these twin cities on daily basis. The way this garbage is disposed off, is posing a great threat to environment. |
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