Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: District Legal services Authority (DLSA) Jammu organized a mega legal awareness camp on solid Waste Management, Conservation of Environment and Say No to Use of Plastic/Polythene at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bantalab, Jammu.
The programme was organized in collaboration with Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and under the aegis of J&K State Legal Services Authority with an objective to make Jammu clean, green and beautiful.
The camp was organized under the chairmanship of RK Wattal, Chairman, DLSA (Principal District & Sessions Judge) Jammu and under the overall supervision of Naushad Ahmed Khan, Secretary, DLSA Jammu. It was attended by students, teaching and non-teaching staff members, para-legal volunteers, members of civil society and officers of JMC.
During his address, Naushad Ahmed Khan asserted that due to its durability and resilience, plastic make an imperative place in our life which directly or indirectly causes gruesome effects on ecosystems and ultimately threatens very existence of living organisms on earth. He educated the gathering to replace the ‘single use plastic’ and polythene in their day to day life by using paper, cotton and jute bags. He beseeched the gathering to discourage the use of polythene and emphasized to segregate the waste which accumulates in tons per day.
Dr Zaffar Iqbal, Nodal Officer, Solid Waste Management, JMC, said that the composition of our waste has changed drastically in the last decade adding more plastics to the waste that we generate and it requires immediate disposal. He advised the gathering to work with full energy in order to make the mission of implementation of Solid waste Management by laws a success.
Others who spoke on the occasion were Principal of KV Bantalab, Surya Prakash and faculty members—Meenakshi Talwar and Sunny Kotwal.
The programme culminated with a pledge to keep the ecosystem neat, clean, safe and hygienic.
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