Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: High Court today directed the Chief Secretary to take effective steps for implementation of Solid Waste Management (SWM) bylaws.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Alok Aradhe while taking a note of Solid Waste Management in the State directed Chief Secretary to take effective steps for implementation of SWM bylaws and to ensure that enforcement of SWM (Solid waste management) system is in place in the State.
The Court further directed that for implementation of SWM bylaws report can be sought from other states for effective implementation and enforcement.
For preparation of ‘Solid Waste Management Plan’ for Phalgam authorities were required to inform the court the deficiencies which need to be taken care of and in this connection Phalgam Municipal Committee, Amarnath Shrine Board, Phalgam Development Authority and Pollution Control Board were going to make joint review to prepare action plan and thereafter action plan for Solid Waste Management was to be put in place before the court.
Hearing the PIL filed by Peoples Welfare Organization, Pahalgam, Court with regard to illegal constructions in Pahalgam tourist resort said, necessitated the intervention of the court for making the resort free from illegal occupants to ensure the prestige of the resort and remarked that all illegal constructions in Pahalgam health resort has to go and ‘Last opportunity’ was given by court to state authorities to act on this issue.
The Court while saying that illegal constructions need to be demolished also directed authorities that for repairing and renovating the legal structures, application forms need to processed immediately and put them online.
To this petitioner counsel, Parvez Imroz stated before Court that inhabitants living around Pahalgam are poor and illiterate. He submitted that they cannot file application online as they are unable to do so.
Court directed state authorities to receive application for repair and renovation in hardcopy from inhabitants of Pahalgam and later on put it online. Also the court directed that inhabitants may be informed regarding their application status.
Court directed that all application for necessary repair or renovation shall be accompanied by permission, site plan, photographs of the structure and other requisite enclosures and thereafter shall be considered by the BOCA of PDA with a time line of four weeks.
Court directed the BOCA authorities of the PDA that after considering the applications the decision be informed to the owner who has applied for the repair of his structure.
Court also made it clear that it shall be responsibility of PDA to physically inspect the structure which needs repair and ensure that under the shield of repair or renovation no owner increase the structure.
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