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| LAWDA plans door to door garbage collection in Dal lake | | | ET Impact
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 10: The Lakes & Water Ways Development Authority (LAWDA) has finally taken a call on undertaking door to door collection of garbage inside several residential areas of Dal Lake. The residents of several localities including house boat owners had been demanding this from last several years , but the management of LAWDA and Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) were not taking this issue seriously. As per reliable sources LAWDA is inviting tenders for this work by end of this month....
As per reliable sources the garbage which gets accumulated in Dal lake is hardly collected on daily basis by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), with the result all the non-biodegradable waste which includes plastic and polythene gets accumulated inside the dozens of small localities in Dal lake. Few months back before the unrest began , Early Times correspondent travelled deep inside Dal lake and spoke to large number of people there…..
"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 different today. We have heard that new Vice Chairman of LAWDA is planning to start door to door garbage collection soon. This would be a great service of VC LAWDA towards Dal dwellers " says Ghulam Hassan Dagga a resident of Dal lake
"The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) is making a great impact in many states but the authorities who are involved in sanitation and cleanliness work in our state are murdering this mission by getting involved in all sorts of illegal acts which causes a direct to the public health. Our environment is also a direct victim of these illegal activities. We appeal Chief Minister soon , to give her special focus to Dal Lake.
The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is supposed to undertake door to door garbage collection inside the areas of Dal Lake . Locals allege that SMC authorities hardly does this work . Locals of Jogi Lankar , Malpora , Chowdhry Bagh have urged upon SMC and LAWDA to keep at least three to four boats available for collecting segregated garbage in various residential areas of Dal lake.
From last few months the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) has demolished dozens of illegal structures around the Dal lake. As per information available LAWDA's demolition squad destroyed 354 illegal structures in last 6 months and have lodged 425 FIR's against the violators who were involved in raising illegal structures in Green Belt.
Enforcement Officer LAWDA Suhail Reshi told a local news agency in Srinagar on Wednesday that 56 vehicles carrying illegal construction material were seized and formal cases were registered against the owners and drivers of those vehicles.
"People residing in the Green Belt are hereby directed that they should not go for any illegal construction. Strict action under law will be taken against them besides the illegal structures on which they spend heft amounts will be raised to ground without any delay," he said adding that all the unscrupulous elements creating hurdles during demolition of illegal constructions will be dealt under law.
The enforcement wing of LAWDA demolished four illegal structures on Wednesday at Harwan area of Srinagar city. |
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