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| Sanitation still a distant dream for many in JK | | Authorities fail to implement SBM properly | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 27: Despite Jammu and Kashmir having poor sanitation, authorities have failed to make proper implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission and other programmes due to varied reasons.
Proper sanitation is still a distant dream for many people in Jammu and Kashmir especially in far-flung areas amid claims of Swachh Bharat Mission.
Swachh Bharat Mission (SMB) started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to eliminate open defecation through the construction of individual, cluster, and community toilets by 2019. The urban local bodies and municipalities were also to prepare the DPR for solid waste management.
However, most of the urban local bodies in the state failed to prepare the DPR in time for the centrally sponsored programme despite having poor sanitation system in the state.
"There has been callousness on part of authorities to make proper implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission. The delay in preparing DPR also created bottlenecks in its implementation of solid waste programme in the state," an official said.
"It was after multiple directives that many urban local bodies managed to frame the DPR," the official said.
The official said there could be seen worst sanitation in far-far places in the state. "Even you see poor sanitation in twin capitals of the state," the official said.
The Housing and Urban Development Department J&K, has prepared a document for improvisation of the sanitation system in the state. In this policy vision document, the HUDD admitted that "poor sanitation" was in place in the state.
"Many areas in J&K have defunct public toilets leaving people to defecate in the open. The community toilets are less than an attraction and stink from almost a quarter of a kilometer away," it reads.
The HUDD in its document, says that SMC claims to have 78 functional public toilets in Srinagar. "However, on ground, the picture is dismal with many unusable public toilets that are inaccessible for the masses. Similarly a considerable number of public toilets in Jammu city are in a bad shape."
The survey Swachh Survekshan has ranked Srinagar at 241 positions in the list of cleanliest cities in the country, while as winter capital Jammu stood at 251st position, thus 10 ranks behind Srinagar in cleanness and other basic civic amenities.
In order to control the practice of open defecation, it has suggested that more public toilets need to be constructed. Further it states that there was no dedicated facility for treatment and disposal of septage and faecal sludge in J & K.
However, the official said that authorities were yet to consider on these suggestions. "Government has no proper planning how to improve the sanitation in Jammu and Kashmir. There has been delay in implementation of various centrally sponsored schemes," the official added. |
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