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| JK lags far behind in solid, liquid waste management programme | | Gobar-Dhan scheme yet to be launched in state, experts receive salary for same | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Jammu & Kashmir has miserably failed to implement an important component of solid and liquid waste management progamme launched across the length and breadth of the country.
Early Times has learnt from sources that not a single measure has been taken to enhance the solid and liquid waste management in the state. The basic reason for the same is the inefficiency of the people at the helm of affairs.
"The inefficiency is evident from the fact that one of the components of solid and liquid waste management known as Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (Gobar-Dhan) scheme, has not been taken up so far in the state. The concerned mission directorate has failed to implement the scheme in the state," said sources.
The Gobar-Dhan scheme has been launched with focus on keeping villages clean, increasing the income of rural households and generation of energy from cattle waste. Currently cattle dung and a portion of agricultural waste is used as cooking fuel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates say that about five lakh deaths in India occur alone due to indoor air pollution caused by unclean cooking fuel. Women and children suffer the most, as they spend large amounts of their time near indoor cooking hearth.
It would be in place to mention here that on September 15 last year Governor Satya Pal Malik declared that Jammu & Kashmir is open defecation free (ODF), under Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) SBM (G). Since that date Directorate of Rural Sanitation has miserably failed to achieve any tangible outcome under the mission.
"As per official figures, all the 22 districts, 4,171 gram panchayats and 7,565 villages in the state were self-declared ODF as per SBM (G), but after that not a single output was achieved by the mission directorate in the state. This clearly shows that the people at helm have restricted their job to mere announcements while doing nothing for the overall benefit of common masses," said sources.
Sources said that while the schemes launched by Government of India are being implemented in right earnest by state governments, the Jammu & Kashmir government is lagging far behind. They said experts roped in for implementation of the scheme are receiving fat salary while doing nothing on the ground. The SBM (G) comprises two main components for creating clean villages -creating ODF villages and managing solid and liquid waste in villages. Bio-gas, the most common form of bio-fuel, is a clean form of energy and can be obtained from cattle dung, poultry droppings, crop residue, kitchen waste, etc. Gobar-Dhan shall benefit rural people in general and women in particular from this clean fuel and also through improvements on health and improvement in cleanliness in the villages. This initiative shall support biodegradable waste recovery and conversion of waste into resources. This shall provide economic and resource benefits to farmers and household and also support creating clean villages which is the objective of SBM (G). |
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