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| No checks on Srinagar weddings, all rules for Jammu banquet halls! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 18: Even as the JK Pollution Control Board or JKPCB has intensified its drive to make Banquet Halls in Jammu adhere to norms, no such efforts being allegedly put in place in the summer capital of Srinagar.
Official sources said the JKPCB has directed the Banquet Halls in Jammu to ensure “ban on Single Use Plastic, restriction and use of Green Crackers only, Use of DJ upto 10 PM with sound limiters etc.”
Sources said the Banquet Hall Association of Jammu recently called on the Chairman, JK Pollution Control Board to show the compliance of the directives and to discuss issues if any.
But while the winter capital is being made to ensure enforcement of norms, no such exercise seems to be a made in Srinagar.
“In Jammu, they (JKPCB) wants ban on use of single use plastic but in Srinagar scores of shops openly sell such lot because its utilized at weddings there and quite openly,” said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
He said in Srinagar, JKPCB was even not checking the use of crackers during weddings though it was a big concern for the militancy infested region. Citing example, he said, in the recent months, at many places like Haft Chinar in Srinagar, the police had to file FIR against those celebrating weddings by bursting “deafening” crackers.
“The noise of bursting crackers is so big that police at times mistook it for a terrorist strike only to find that it was wedding celebrations with no respect for law and order by the offenders. But if police is active, why is pollution control board silent,” asked the senior official adding that “Srinagar has been given a free hand.”
He said in Srinagar high decibel music systems were also being used in weddings during late night hours making lives of neighborhood miserable.
Officials said there was a need to enforce JKPCB laws in Srinagar as well.
“If Jammu can be made to adhere to discipline, why not Srinagar,” the official said.
When contacted a JKPCB official said the pollution control was doing its job properly in Kashmir and that “all such issues were being taken care of.” |
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