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| J&K dumping 100 percent of its solid waste in open: NGT report | | Inviting environment catastrophe! | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 9: A report submitted before National Green Tribunal (NGT) has revealed that J&K has been dumping 100 percent of its solid waste in open which includes its Urban Local Bodies as well (ULB).
Details available with Early Times reveal that due to absence of scientific waste management techniques the Municipal Solid Waste is dumped in open across cities of Srinagar and Jammu. The report was submitted by Government of India last year before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which is an apex legal body looking after litigations related to environmental pollution. The report has ranked J&K state last among all states in management of municipal solid waste across country. Goa , Kerala and Tamilnadu are the best three states which have proper scientific mechanism in place vis a via Management of Solid Waste.
As per the report J&K neither has any facility of door to door collection and segregation of municipal solid waste , nor is composting of organic waste material done in any city or town of the state. As already reported early this year , in Bejbehera town the municipal solid waste , garbage , dead animals are being dumped by the local Municipal Committee (MC) Bhejbehera on the banks of "Daed Kull" which is a beautiful nallah flowing through Bhejbehara - Pahalgam road. Heaps of garbage are dumped near this place by authorities who claim to be the saviors of the environment.
Pertinent to mention that officials of local municipality in Chadoora town of central Kashmir are seen involved in dumping all the garbage into the Doodh-Ganga nallah which flows through this town. Irony is that same water is supplied by Public Health Engineering (PHE) department to thousands of people in Budgam as well as Srinagar districts.
In Bandipora town the garbage and municipal waste is dumped in Wullar lake by local Municipal Committee. Few years back the Municipal Committee (MC) Bandipora received a grant of around 82 lakhs from Wullar Conservation and Management Authority (WCMA) for strengthening and developing the infrastructure for scientific disposal of municipal solid waste so as to prevent any sort of pollution within and along the banks of Wular Lake.
Due to increased population Solid Waste Management (SWM) has been seen as a great challenge in Jammu and Srinagar cities . Huge quantity of garbage gets piled up in these twin cities on daily basis. The way this garbage is stored and disposed off, poses a great threat to our environment. This activity is not only a threat to our environment but it is hazardous to the public health also. The garbage disposal or Solid Waste Management is not only a problem for Jammu or Srinagar cities but this is a very serious issue for the people residing in other towns of our state like Bandipora , Udhampur , Kupwara , Sopore, Ramban , Doda, Rajouri etc.
As per the report submitted before NGT Tamil Nadu has more than 500 composting units where organic fertilizer is made out of bio degradable waste material . Similarly in other states at an average 30 to 40 such units exist , but in an environmentally fragile state of Jammu & Kashmir not a single such organic compositing unit exists. |
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