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| LAWWDA fails to clear Malpora channel | | Despite spending Rs 500 Crore in 5 years | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 12: Despite having spent more than 500 Crores on various developmental works around Dal lake during last 5 years, Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWWDA) has failed to clear several channels which enter into the Dal Lake from different areas surrounding this lake. One such water-channel is located at Malpora locality in Srinagar's old city.
Details available with Early Times reveal that an important water channel entering Dal lake at Malpora near Jogi Lankar Rainawari is chocked due to heaps of garbage being dumped into it by local residents as well as "Safai Karamcharies" associated with Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). The LAWWDA according to locals seems to be least bothered to clear this 1 km long channel which connects Malpora with another locality Chowdhary Bagh also located inside the Dal lake.
"The channel is filled with plastic bottles , polythene and other kinds of Non Bio-degradable waste. This trash is filled into the water-body from last more than a decade as locals have facility of dumping the garbage , become door to door collection of garbage and its scientific disposal is hardly undertaken by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) or Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWWDA). I am sure more than 200 truck-loads of trash would be inside this 1 km long channel. We are now fed up with authorities and I along with my friends are mobilizing local people of this area to undertake the cleaning of thischannel on their own" said Dr Mushtaq Khan , Social Activist who is resident of a nearby locality.
Pertinent to mention that much hyped Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM) might be changing lives of people in other cities and towns of country, but for the dwellers of Dal Lake this countrywide mega sanitation campaign has hardly made any impact as heaps of garbage continues to be dumped inside the Dal lake rather than making its scientific disposal.
"There is no mechanism to collect the garbage from various localities inside Dal lake and people are forced to through all the polythene and other waste material inside the lake . Had authorities developed a mechanism to undertake door to door collection of garbage with proper segregation , things would have been entirely different today and Malpora channel would not have been chocked " says Ghulam Nabi a resident ofMalpora
The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWWDA) are supposed to undertake sanitation work inside the Dal lake. Locals allege that these authorities hardly do this kind of job. They have urged upon SMC and LAWWDA to keep at least three to four boats available for collecting segregated garbage in various residential areas of Dal lake. It is pertinent to mention that Sewerage Treatment Plants established at a cost of Rs 20 crores (STP's) located around Dal Lake are also defunct from last many years. Instead of treating the sewerage at these plants , the sludge is carried in tankers and dumped near Shalimar Foreshore road. Early Times had filed a separate report of that issue several times. |
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