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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday asked officials to follow a simplified model of waste collection from the doorsteps of households, creating the material handling facilities and then disposal of the same in a scientific manner.Mehta also emphasized upon all the concerned to intensify their efforts to clean all the villages and ensure proper hygiene in all habitations.The chief secretary made the remarks while chairing a meeting which was attended by the Commissioner Secretary, RDD, Deputy Commissioners, and Director, Rural Sanitation either physically or virtually.According to an official statement, Mehta asked to create segregation facilities for a cluster of nearby villages if not feasible for a single village."Sensitize the people about the cleanliness of their surroundings and also penalize those found littering around undesirably. Cleanliness is the foremost task we have and we all have to be serious about it. The task of cleanliness of our villages is not a difficult task to accomplish if we all do our bit," he further said.He took appraisal from all the Deputy Commissioners about the status of Door to Door collection of waste in villages, construction of segregation sheds, provision of composite, soak pits, drainage facilities, and disposal of waste in their villages.Enquiring about the Plastic Waste Management plans, he said that such waste creates unhygienic conditions mostly in our surroundings.The Commissioner Secretary, RDD asked all the Deputy Commissioners to complete the tendering process forthwith.She told them to increase their numbers with respect to villages falling in the "Aspiring, Rising and Model category".The Rural Sanitation Director gave a presentation on the current status of all the initiatives taken under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen in the UT. He gave out that the door-to-door collection of waste is going on in every village. He further revealed that Solid Waste Management (SWM) plan has been formulated for every Panchayat besides bye-laws for advisory committees, enforcement, and monitoring.The meeting was informed that the agency for the collection of Solid Waste has been identified in all the districts with an allied financial model for its sustainability."District Sanitation Committees have been constituted also. It was made out that around 1512 villages had achieved the ODF+ status already besides more than 7000 kgs of legacy waste disposed of in the UT villages with the participation of 197838 individuals," the statement said.According to the statement, the meeting was apprised that around 6009 community composite pits, 804 segregation sheds, 42424 soak pits, and leach pits, 15607 drainage facilities, and 1102 Grey Water Management (GWM) systems have been created in villages in addition to 455616 individual household assets for SWM and GWM under the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen throughout the length and breadth of Jammu and Kashmir.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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National :Follow simplified model of waste collection from doorsteps: J-K Chief Secretary

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday asked officials to follow a simplified model of waste ... ...