Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) today launched Integrated & Sustainable Solid Resource Management Project in Ward No 9, Jammu to make the city free from garbage and resulting pollution.
Giving details of the project, Municipal Commissioner, Jammu, Mandeep Kour, told media persons that the objective of the project is to keep the Jammu City clean, beautiful and garbage free besides demonstrating complete resource recovery from inorganic waste through reusing, recycling, etc and organic waste by involving volunteers and self help groups.
She said as the project was implemented in various districts of the country successfully, therefore we decided to launch the same in Jammu to make the city garbage free.
Prior to this we did small sampling of this project at Gandhi Nagar, High Court and University of Jammu and now we are going to do 10-day long survey in Jammu through volunteers and for this we are training the people, who will create awareness among the residents, shopkeepers and people at other establishments about source segregation, type of organic and inorganic wastes and current waste disposal system.
“As a part of the project, our volunteers will collect waste from houses, shops, hotels and other establishments two times a day. The inorganic waste will be immediately cleaned, processed and packed ready for sale while the organic waste will be spread in aerobic compost beds or tanks, after mixing with cow dung slurry as bacterial inoculums, at specific places in each ward”, she added.
The JMC Commissioner further said that the project if becomes successful, it will help the city to become free from dumping sites and at the same time it will reduces pollution of air, ground water and soil that result from dumping.
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