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| Drain water enters secretariat rooms, puts normal functioning to grinding halt | | SMC's inefficacy reaches Govt's door | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 1: It was the humiliating situation for one and all in the civil secretariat on Thursday when the drainage water inundated the first floor of the high security zone, leaving bureaucrats and other officials with no option but to take detours to reach their champers.
As per the reports, due to the heavy rainfall that occurred during the past two days in state's Summer capital, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation was caught napping, making absolutely no efforts in dealing with the possible aftermath of the precipitation. The results were obvious on Thursday morning when the almost entire Lal Chowk and its adjoining areas got submerged under water, leaving the local inhabitants high and dry. However, the SMC had not in its wildest dreams imagined that the inabilities of its officials would knock the doors of the highest seat of power in the state. As the water-logging in Lal Chowk coerced shops to shut and schools to declare holidays, its eruption in the civil secretariat could act as a spoilsport into the trajectory of those at the helm in the SMC.
"This is a height of inefficacy and inefficient mode of functioning. Such a pathetic thing has never happened in the past in civil secretariat. The governor's office also is very unhappy over such sorry state of affairs," says a senior official posed in civil secretariat.
He added that there has been a complete display of failure of SMC in dewatering the roads and maintenance of the water flow in the city centre. "How could otherwise the drain reach the secretariat premises and not only the premises but its interiors as well. Several rooms in the ground floor were inundated and we had to use dewatering pumps to clear that out," said the official.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time that SMC has been at the receiving end of the peoples wrath. While people at the helm in the corporation race against each other and pose of the pictures, when it comes on the work front, there is nothing except the open display of pathetic functioning.
The heaps of garbage lying every where is acting as a spoilsport in city's over all opulence besides exposing SMC's inefficacy in more ways than just one.
As per the survey done by various government and non- government agencies, there is not even percent of the waste being processed or treated by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation. And out of 100 percent, the SMC has been collecting only 75 percent of the waste from the City out of which less than 5 percent is processed. The wastes are disposed of indiscriminately at garbage dumping sites and that the creation of the composting units or mechanical segregators is a distant dream.
As per data available on SMC website 450 metric tons of solid waste is generated with the SMC limits on daily basis. Due to various reasons this waste is not at all treated and is finally dumped at Achen landfill site in Srinagar. As per the power point presentation uploaded on SMC website for seeking feedback on developing Srinagar into a Smart City not even in a single residential area (colonies , mohallas etc) or commercial establishments have the facility of segregation of solid waste . |
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