Waste disposal management is not a pressing civic issue only in cities and towns but also in villages where three tier panchayat bodies are supposed to take care of waste disposal management and drainage system. Had the efficient waste disposal management system been put in place in twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu , it would have inspired Panchayat bodies to do well with the execution of efficient waste disposal systems in villages also particularly after the constitution of three tier panchayat system for the first time in last seventy years in Jammu & Kashmir. Waste disposal management is a matter of bigger priority in Kashmir valley than Jammu division because of it’s greater attraction for tourism than any other part of the country. Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) holds gala functions to celebrate the awards it gets from one or the other organisation but it does not pay any attention to any pressing civic issue particularly the waste disposal management system. Not only Srinagar but major towns of Kashmir also should have developed the facility of waste treatment plants for scientific disposal of waste materials long ago but forget about the municipal bodies of major towns of Kashmir valley even Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) does not plan to work on any such project even now. People are hardly impressed by the awards SMC gets from different organisations year after year as they(people) are the victims of a failed waste disposal management system which is unlikely improve in coming year due to lack of a focused attention on waste treatment plans. Along with inefficient waste disposal management system Srinagar Municipal Corporation is also failing to improve a defunct drainage system in Srinagar city.
While the transportation of disposal of waste material to disposal site would partly generate sense of better civic sense among the people, the work on, the facility of an efficient drainage system would by all probabilities reduce the intensity of misuse of drains for disposal of the waste material. Not ribbon cutting inaugural ceremonies but completion of works on the sewerage and drainage projects in the given timeline could make Srinagar Municipal Corporation a trend setter of a new era of civic governance in Kashmir.
Never forget that an efficient waste disposal management system alone won’t change the scenario of urban cleanliness in Srinagar unless and until Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) does not come out with a plan of action for an efficient drainage system. In fact drainage system and waste disposal management are two biggest challenges of urban planners in Jammu & Kashmir and more so in Kashmir valley particularly Srinagar city. The implementation of projects of Waste Disposal Management and drainage system in a time bound manner is the only way to set a trend for an efficient civic governance system both in urban and rural Kashmir. While the transportation of disposal of waste material to disposal site would partly generate sense of better civic sense among the people, the work on, the facility of an efficient drainage system would by all probabilities reduce the intensity of misuse of drains for disposal of the waste material. Not ribbon cutting inaugural ceremonies but completion of works on the sewerage and drainage projects in the given timeline could make Srinagar Municipal Corporation a trend setter of a new era of civic governance in Kashmir.
