Owais Gul:
Srinagar: The inhabitants of Zampi Kadal Chattabal are up in arms against Srinagar Municipal Corporation for failing to prevent vacant land from turning into garbage dumping site.
The residents here have demanded to clear up landfill site for the larger interests of people.
A delegation comprising of locals from Zampi Kadal Chattabal said that vacant land has turned into a dumping site which has caused health problems due to foul smell emanating from it.
The land which is nearer to the Himayat centre is rapidly turning into the garbage dumping site due to the negligence of authorities as no action has been taken to clear up the land.
The residents while talking to street times said that they have approached many officials in this regard but nothing has been done so far. “We have been continuously pleading to Municipal Authorities to remove garbage from the area, but no action has been taken in this regard.”
The residents alleged that garbage could be seen accumulated in the middle of road at Chattabal near Himayat centre.
“The presence of garbage in the land is causing grave threats to our lives as foul smell pervades in the atmosphere. The site has turned to be a shelter for dozens of canines too. The height of fear is that even the kids do not dare to walk,” said Ghulam Muhammad Dar, a local resident.
“Heaps of garbage that has piled up on the roadside near the site, road of Chattabal is breeding insects which can cause dangerous diseases,” residents said.
They said that the dirt and garbage stinks and has already spread infection but no one from the administration is paying heed to our difficulties, which causes immense hardships to them, adding, “The authorities have assured us several times but they failed to make their promise till date.”
Another resident said the district administration and Municipal Authorities of Srinagar are not even going for antiseptic sprays like phenyl to avoid spread of diseases thereby leaving the people especially the residents here to suffer.
He said that the dirt and rubble that had settled down after the water receded was not immediately removed from the streets of the area and now it emanates puffs of dust.
Officials however said that to clear and sanitize the land is already into the consideration and work over it will be started soon.