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| ‘SMC lies about Waste Collection’ Insiders contest claims | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 13: Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) had claimed that SMC launched waste collection in segregated form in around 6 municipal wards of city from January 10 but Sources in SMC have narrated a different story to told Early Times. According to them, the claims are false. They said , it was a mere a photo session to befool top Government officials , politicians and media. Sources say that not even 1 % of the garbage was collected by SMC staff in a segregated manner (organic & in organic waste) across the 35 municipal wards.
Details available with Early Times reveal that on January 10th Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) on the directions of Commissioner Riyaz Ahmad Wani launched so called "segregated waste collection" from individual households in some parts of Srinagar city. SMC had claimed that it collected 70 metric tons of waste from different areas of the summer capital in a segregated manner on Jan 10th 2018 , but authentic sources inside SMC told Early Times that from next day ie 11th January not even 1 metric ton of waste was collected in a segregated manner.
The segregated garbage was to be collected from the six municipal wards namely 1,2,22,24,30 and 32. These wards are Brien Nishat, Lal Chowk, Dalgate, Karan Nagar, Bemina, Jawahar Nagar and Hyderpora. When Early Times contacted people in these wards they said that waste is not even properly collected by SMC vehicles , and SMC's claim of collecting the waste in segregated manner (Organic fruit , vegetable and food waste and In Organic plastic etc ) is a bundle of lies.
In a statement SMC claimed that some NGO volunteers had been taken up this work in 6 wards , but sources say that not even a single such volunteer is found in any ward of city. SMC sanitation staff told Early Times that early last year from January to April some volunteers were accompanying SMC staff in ward 32 and 33 but after April or May 2017 , those volunteers never came back again.
SMC commissioner Riyaz Ahmad Wani had told media during the so called launch of door-to-door collection on Jan 10th that segregation of waste at source has been started in six municipal wards, but reliable sources say that this segregated waste collection was not even started. Had it been started on time Srinagar city could have been ranked among top 50 clean cities of India in the new swachh survekeshan whose result will be out within a few months. "MLA Batamaloo Noor Mohammad was also made to flag off 50 specially designed vehicles last month for this job , but the vehicles hardly carry the segregated waste" said an official of SMC (name withheld)
Pertinent to mention that Solid Waste Management Rule -2016 lays special emphasis on source segregation of waste that mandates to channelize the waste to wealth by recovery, reuse and recycle. The waste segregation is mandatory under new solid waste rules , but in J&K state waste segregation is neither undertaken in Srinagar nor in Jammu city. Even in around 90 municipal committees of state this kind of activity is not at all seen. |
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