Tawi river cries for attention: Efforts to restore its glory, just cosmetic

Tahir Mushtaq

JAMMU, Dec 30: Although the administration has taken a slew of measures to restore the pristine glory of the Tawi river that gives identity to the city of temples, the exercise has proven cosmetic so far as the riverbed continues to be used as garbage dumping ground besides a confluence of all the municipal drains.

“Keep Jammu clean” is the slogan of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and its initiatives to restore the Tawi to its divine values is appreciable, but due to the unavailability of required space for garbage dumping, the city has reached to the extent to squalidity.

The department of Public Health and Engineering (PHE) had instructed JMC not to dump the municipal waste in river Tawi.

At the same time, the JMC had not made any alternate arrangement to deal with the situation as no other space for dumping the garbage of the city was identified and municipal vehicles loaded with garbage could be seen parked and at various places with the garbage started foul-smelling.

JMC says that a piece of land has been identified in the Kangrail area on the city outskirts for solid waste management, but the same was yet to be used for dumping garbage and other waste material. Another place has been identified at Makhwal near the international border to use as a dumping site but since the area comes in the close proximity to the army campus again the same cannot be used.

Expressing helplessness Commissioner JMC, S C Sawhney said that the department is on work to identify the site for the dumping the city waste. Now its a million dollar question that if the authorities couldn’t able to trace out any location for a month period, then what would be the Scenario of the City of temples?

Public Opinion

Better late than never. It’s a good initiative of the Irrigation Department to retrieve the Tawi River to its Divine Values, But it has also displayed the non-serious approach of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) as the dumping of garbage is unmoved by that time, the authorities have shown their irresponsibility, but the cost is been paid by the Common public.

From:

Atul Dave

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It is completely a result of administration failure as the Municipal Corporation is running without its administrator, because, once delayed elections for the Mayors designation, couldn’t be conducted by this course of time. For a while it was ok, but now it has come to our door step, we could not endure this filth anymore.

From:

Sandeep Sharma

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Not the first this is when we have to suffer because of others fault, Now departments are become habitual of insincerity, they are just enjoying the luxury of Rank, and literally they have no idea that what going on in the City in current situation. It is not in Jammu only in fact throughout the country that foresightedness before initiating a project is missing.

Sorry, but we could not do anything regarding this mess of the Non-serious people.

From:

Renu Bhan