No waste disposal facility at SIDCO Lassipora: Unit Holders
‘Garbage being dumped on banks of Rambi Ara’
Pulwama: The Small Industries Development Corporations (SIDCO’s) Industrial area at Lassipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district is functioning without a waste disposal facility, unit holders alleged.
They said that the whole garbage generated at the industrial area is being dumped on the bank of rivulet Rambi Ara.
An official working in the industrial area said that every day heaps of garbage are being thrown into the rivulet which poses a health hazards to thousands of people.
He said that despite repeated communications to the unit holders to use dustbins which will be taken up by Municipal authorities every days, most of unit holders are resorting to dumping of all waste in main water body which is the main source of drinking water for people of dozens of villages.
Locals from Heff, Shirmal, Sugan, Achan, Petipora, Panjran and its adjacent areas said since years now garbage is being thrown into the water body which is posing a threat to the environment as well as to the lives, farmland and orchards of the area.
They said that they have brought this issue into the notice of concerned authorities several times but they are unmoved.
Unit holders said that there is no other option for them as there is no waste management plant in such a vast industrial estate which is spread over around 6 thousand kanals.
They said that until and unless government won’t provide such facilities there is no other option before them than to dump the waste in the open.
When contacted, Manager Industrial Estate Lassipor, Rafiq Ahmad said that the common effluent treatment plants is functional in the industrial area and facilities for solid waste management facilities are being created.
He said that unit holders aren’t cooperating with them and within two three days, he will call all unit holders in this regard and hopefully within a week’s time the issue will be resolved.
