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| Sewage, infrastructure development schemes make poor headway | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, December 14 :-Despite the fact that the Government has earmarked about Rs.262 crores for resolving the severe sewerage problem in the cities of Srinagar and Jammu, major lanes and drains besides the main road arteries in the two cities get choked because of filth and refuse that are littered. Experts say that choking of these drains and lanes is the result of weak and defective sewerage system.
Over a decade ago, experts had suggested that there was an urgent necessity to augment and improve urban services in the State. The scheme for upgrading the sewage system was taken in hand under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), with an outlay of Rs. 132.92 crore for the city of Srinagar and and Rs. 129.23 crore for Jammu city.
In fact it was a centrally sponsored project. Under the project deep channels were dug for improving the sewerage system but there are still various areas in the interior of Srinagar and in vicinities falling in the north-west belt of the Jammu city where the problem of bad sewage system had resulted in pollution and untidy localities.
Political leaders belonging to the PDP, Panthers Party and the BJP demand restructuring the entire scheme so that more areas were covered under the JNNURM.
A comprehensive Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) is also being executed. But the progress in this scheme is also quite slow with the result there is no marked improvement in the infrastructure in the towns.
Under the Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme, which is meant to provide dwelling units to the BPL population of city slums, a total of 6,677 dwelling units have been sanctioned at a cost of Rs. 162.39 crore. But so far not more than 25 per cent of the 6677 dwellings have been completed. There is a widespread demand for expediting the scheme so that a large number of families living below the poverty line were beneficent
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