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Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: Out of 4000 Field Staff members in Urban Local Bodes , hardly 500 to 600 are seen practically working on the ground which raises a serious question mark on the functioning of around 90 Municipal Committees across the state.
As per reliable sources only 20 % of staff members are seen active in around 90 Municipal committees across state and rest 80 % get salaries for doing no work. This problem is causing a huge loss to state exchequer and authorities seem to be least bothered to address the issue.
Details available with Early Times reveal that out of 40 employees in Beerwah Municipal Committee in Budgam only 7 to 10 employees are seen actively working on the ground. In addition to it around one dozen officials are posted in the Municipal Committee office but hardly 5 to 6 are seen present.
There is no Executive Officer posted in the said committee from last several months. Beerwah Municipal Committee has total administration over 950 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorize to build roads within Municipal Committee limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction, but the successive Govern-ment's have not empowered Beerwah Municipal Committee at all.
As per reliable information there are 80 plus employees in Municipal Committee Beerwah , but only 20 people are seen working on the ground and rest of the employees are drawing salaries sitting at home. In Budgam Municipal Committee there are around 85 employees but only 10 to 15 attend their duties regularly. In Municipal Committee Ganderbal there are more than 4 dozen employees but hardly 7 to 12 employees are seen active. There is no dumping site for garbage in this town with the result heaps of garbage are dumped in local water bodies.
Pertinent to mention that a report submitted before National Green Tribunal (NGT) has revealed some astonishing facts about Jammu & Kashmir vis a vis dumping of solid waste in the state. The report says that J&K has 100 % open dumping of Municipal Solid Waste which includes its Urban Local Bodies as well (ULB).
Due to absence of scientific waste management techniques the Municipal Solid Waste is dumped in open across cities of Srinagar and Jammu along with other towns which are controlled by the Directorates of Urban Local Bodies in 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 as 31 vis a vis 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 of municipal solid waste , segregation nor is composting of organic waste material done in any city or town of the state. As already reported early this year , in Bijbehara town the municipal solid waste , garbage , dead animals are being dumped by the local Municipal Committee (MC) Bijbehara on the banks of "Daed Kull" which is a beautiful nallah flowing through Bijbehara - Pahalgam road. Heaps of garbage are dumped near this place by authorities who claim to be the saviors of the community.
" There is no concept of Solid Waste Management , Segregation at source and door to door collection of garbage in our town. Had the local municipal authorities been doing this in Bhejbehara and other towns , the things would have been different. Even the officials of local municipality are unaware about scientific disposal and segregation of bio-degradable and non biodegradable of waste material" said Mohammad Asif a Post Graduate student of Environmental Science and a local resident of Bijbehara .
The sanitation staff 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 Rs 82 lakhs from Wullar Conservation and Management Authority (WUCMA) 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. "Inspite of getting get a huge grant the Muncipal Committee (MC) Bandipora continues to dump all the garbage in the local water bodies and the irony is that this dumping mostly takes place in famous Wullar lake" said a local resident Mushtaq Ahmad
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 .
" If all the staff members posted in Urbal Local Bodies across perform their duties efficiently our towns would be garbage free within months. But nobody is bothered about these 80 % of employees who get salaries sitting at home. We hope Dy CM Nirmal Singh ji who is Minister In charge for Urban Bodies as well , will intervene into this serious issue" said Advocate Bilal Ahmad an environmental lawyer. |
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