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Written by: Aatif Qayoom

Category: ENVIRONMENT

Published: 20 March 2020

SRINAGAR: At a time when authorities are stressing on sanitation and cleanliness to prevent people from dearly COVID-19, north Kashmir’s Kultura village lacks dumping site. Residents of the area told KNS due to the lack of waste dumping site facility people are facing serious health risk.

“Despite repeated appeals to the officials of Rural Development for construction of waste dumping site in the area, nothing has been done so far in this regard”, Basit Lone a local said. Another resident said government is spending lacks of rupees on construction of various schemes every year but the construction of waste dumping site is being ignored. “Every year Rural Development is spending lakhs of rupees for the development of village but local population is unable to understand why this crucial project has been abandoned”, he said. 

Local added that the area has enough vacant government land where dumping site can be established with modern techniques. However when KNS contacted BDC Chairman Showket Pandith, he said the matter is also in our consideration and hopefully the issue will be resolved within coming months. He also added those areas who are lacking such facilities will also be taken into account.