“Many towns and Panchayats in most of the villages are yet to identify the garbage dumping sites and devise proper practices and procedures for disposing of the waste at the well identified garbage dumping sites.”
Few days of cleanliness drive are unlikely to make villages, towns and cities of Jammu & Kashmir garbage free till the Prime Minister’s “Swach Bharat” mission is changed into an endless daily practice and the onus on this count lies on municipal and panchayat bodies across Jammu & Kashmir. Launching cleanliness drives in schools, colleges and Government offices on eve of Gandhi Jyanti for a week or so won’t by any standards of understandabilities make the towns and village of Jammu & Kashmir garbage free but implementation of a policy for identifying the garbage dumping sites and devising proper practices and procedures for disposal of the waste at the dumping would hopefully make a huge difference. Though municipal bodies of the twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu and also of several towns are following proper practices and procedures for collection of the waste and it’s disposal at well identified garbage sites but many towns and Panchayats in most of the villages are yet to identify the garbage dumping sites and devise proper practices and procedures for disposing of the waste at the well identified garbage dumping sites. Though municipal and panchayat bodies are very proudly celebrating the completion of their five year full terms after the implementation of 73rd and 7th constitutional amendment bills in Jammu & Kashmir but they are yet to ponder over their inability in making towns and villages of their own jurisdiction garbage free.
“Now when the municipal and panchayat bodies have failed to identify garbage dumping sites and devise proper practices and procedures for scientific disposal of the waste at the dumping sites suitable for garbage disposal it would have been better for the Urban Local Bodies and Rural Development Departments to themselves identify the garbage dumping sites in towns and villages and subsequently outsource the job of waste collection and disposal the way it has been outsourced in the twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu” .
While the apple orchards on both sides of the inter-district routes and amusement parks at the famed tourist spots have virtually changed into huge heaps of garbage across Jammu & Kashmir, the municipal and panchayat bodies don’t wake up from deep slumber to lift garbage from public places for it’s disposal through scientific methods at the well identified garbage dumping sites away from the populated areas in the towns and villages of their own jurisdictions. Now when the municipal and panchayat bodies have failed to identify garbage dumping sites and devise proper practices and procedures for scientific disposal of the waste at the dumping sites suitable for garbage disposal it would have been better for the Urban Local Bodies and Rural Development Departments to themselves identify the garbage dumping sites in towns and villages and subsequently outsource the job of waste collection and disposal the way it has been outsourced in the twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu . Hope the Urban Local Bodies and Rural Development Departments in coordination and consultation with the Deputy Commissioners devise a policy for identifying the garbage dumping sites and disposing off the waste at the well identified dumping sites to make towns and villages of Jammu & Kashmir garbage free in a given timeline.
