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| Revised Master Plan-2032: Jammu city has poor drainage, sanitation | | | Saqib Junaid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 20: The revised Master Plan for Jammu-2032, framed by the Housing and Urban Development Department keeping in view the provisions under the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act, 1970 says that Jammu city does not have a planned and a full-fledged sewerage system.
Jammu city has a poor drainage and sanitation system in place as a result the untreated water flows into water bodies and pollutes the environment, says the revised master plan report.
"In most parts of the old city, night soil is flushed into roadside drains and natural water channels causing fly nuisance and unhygienic conditions. The salvage waters in various areas are directly disposed into River Tawi or other water bodies without any treatment. Discharging untreated raw sewage either on land or into water bodies severely pollutes the environment like water bodies' viz. lakes and streams, ground water as well as air and results in health hazards to the community exposed to it," the report says.
The master plan report says that although the old city has a sloping terrain, but flooding takes place due to poor discharging capacity of the nallahs which carry a huge amount of the sewage. "The problem is further compounded due to chocking of drains by garbage."
At present, according to the report, the city generates more than 600 tonnes of solid waste per day. However, only about 80% of it is collected and 66% is disposed off. "The uncleared waste remains littered on roadsides, open spaces and is even dumped into water bodies leading to unhygienic living environment.
While in most of the areas of Jammu city, solid waste is manually collected in two stages - initially from streets, lanes and bye-lanes in the absence of garbage bin and taken to any place which is generally an open area. Usually due to delay in disposal of waste, these sites become places of public nuisance."
The drainage channels according to the new framed master plan have fallen prey to the accelerated urban growth for there has been no standardized regulations provided in the earlier Master Plan-2021 to regulate development in the vicinity.
The revised draft has recommended certain measures that needed to be taken in Jammu in regulating the problems of haphazard and unplanned growth in the region.
The revised master plan according to its draft has envisaged that its most effective and judicious use in the best interest of a community through the instrument of land use plan further to be detailed in zonal plans. "Therefore, as a principle of urban planning and development, the urban land is treated as an asset and planned its utilization by various uses accordingly."
The new Master Plan 2032 proposes an increase in limits of Jammu city by increasing its area from 305 sq km as envisaged in the 2021 Master Plan to 652.32 sq km covering an estimated population of 20.5 lakh.
An official said the revised master plan was envisaged to address the issues relating to haphazard urban growth, unauthorized habitation and rising demand of housing, infrastructure and services. "The haphazard unregulated constructions that had led to unplanned development in the state thereby creating drainage problem and congestion of roads," the official said. |
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