Has Srinagar Municipality lost the sense of elementary sanitary requirement of a city of its size? Has it closed its eyes to the mountains of garbage and polythene that meet the eye wherever one goes? What is the fate of the people who are forced to breathe the obnoxious smell of the heaps of garbage? How come the authorities are turning away their head from this abhorrent scenario? No less a person than the Chairman of National Green Tribunal (NGT) is constrained to warn the Government that they would order dumping of all garbage and litter in the Secretariat so that administrative authorities know what is happening in the city. All this noise and tantrum converges on Government’s inability to put in place the solid waste management in Srinagar. The NGT had passed orders a year ago that solid waste management system should be inducted but nothing has been done so far. The Bench wonders how come the State authorities defy its instructions. The Chairman asserted that it would hold Chief Secretary of the State responsible for non-compliance of the orders passed a year ago.
We fail to understand why the authorities have not set up a waste management plant when they know that in a big city like Srinagar it is of immediate health requirement. The Chairman was ruffled on non-compliance of court order and asked the Government representative whether it needed cabinet sanction to put up a waste management plant. This is a series matter because the health of the people is involved. Authorities cannot play with the health of the people and they cannot become a source of their fatality. This is also true of Jammu city. Both cities are sprawling owing to great influx of rural population or migratory population. This has put great burden on public utility services. As such, setting up a solid garbage disposal plant is of utmost importance. Now that the NGT has passed strictures in this connection, we hope the administration will move and respond to what the court has communicated to it.
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