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Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 20: As Government offices are unable to work in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir valley, the field staff of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) are also facing lots of challenges to clear garbage from the city municipal limits due to hartals and curfews. Authorities early this year had assigned garbage collection and its scientific disposal through segregation by an NGO who was involving Rag Pickers in some municipal wards , but the even before the unrest began in valley , the NGO has been not at all seen on the ground allege the residents of Srinagar.
Details available with Early Times reveal that Chintan a Delhi based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) which was asked to undertake door to door collection of garbage and its scientific segregation in some wards of Srinagar city has allegedly failed to do the same say reliable sources inside Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). Early Times had filed a detailed report on this issue in May , but it seems the NGO Chintan has become a Chinta for the SMC officials who now have to do this job themselves….
Chintan was allotted the work early this year was initially asked to work in three wards of SMC , and later on the organization was given more wards. Sources say that NGO only mobilized rag-pickers to collect the polythene / paper at dumping sites, but failed to collect the garbage from residential colonies / localities by making door to door collection of the waste material and its segregation at source.
Earlier this year when state was put under Governors rule, Governor N.N. Vohra had directed senior bureaucrat B.B. Vyas to review all existing and arising problems relating to Solid Waste Management (SWM) of Srinagar City.
After the exhaustive review done by Mr. Vyas, he discussed the entire matter with the Governor during and the following decisions were taken to address sanitation and waste management issues in Srinagar, based on the former's recommendations:
The immediate measures taken to ensure adequate sanitation in the Srinagar city included direction to SMC to clear 1350 MTs of garbage which had accumulated upto 16 March; (ii) SMC was asked to clear the balance garbage by 18 March; (iii) Commissioner SMC was held responsible for taking immediate action, as an interim measure, to cover heaps of solid waste, about 3000 MTs approximately, spread over 150 kanals of land, with plastic sheets to address the issue of foul smell; (iv) Commissioner SMC was asked to take immediate action to ensure proper utilization of the cycles (funded under ADB Project) for collection of garbage from within narrow streets; (v) Commissioner SMC was also asked to take action to enlarge the pilot project undertaken by NGO namely CHINTAN for the segregation of wastes at source-points of collection from the existing 2 to 10 wards. Sources say that NGO did not adhere to these orders and is not at all seen on the ground across Srinagar…..
Pertinently the Housing & Urban Development Department has already made available Rs. 20.69 crore to SMC for creation of ancillary facilities to pave the way for installation of a mechanical segregator for which about 900 kanals of land is also available. SMC was asked to ensure that all these facilities are put in place by 30th June 2016.
A senior official in SMC told Early Times that SMC officials particularly the field staff lack knowledge about Municipal Solid Waste Management. He said that there is urgent need of having more and more capacity building programmes for the employees particularly the field staff associated with sanitation work. They have also urged upon people to cooperate with SMC staff so that garbage is removed from colonies and residential areas on daily basis…. It is reported from several tows that heaps of garbage has got accumulated in residential areas , but the sanitation employees are not able to dispose it off as protesters do not allow movement of vehicles at various places… |
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