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| Garbage management in Srinagar: Engaged NGO fails to deliver | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 4: A Delhi-based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) which was engaged 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).
The NGO which 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 gets rag-pickers to collect the polythene / paper at dumping site and fails to collect the garbage from residential colonies.
Earlier on the directions of Governor N.N. Vohra, a meeting was convened by B.B. Vyas, Financial Commissioner reviewed all existing and arising problems relating to Solid Waste Management (SWM) of Srinagar City and recommended immediate measures to ensure adequate sanitation in the Srinagar city with direction to SMC to clear 1350 MTs of garbage which had accumulated upto 16 March; 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; 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 is not adhering to these orders.
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. |
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