Sir,
We are the residents of Trikuta Nagar Jammu residing on either side of irrigation canal near Jammu Tawi railway station face problems.
As the Tawi irrigation canal is closed for annual maintenance and desilting by way of removing accumulated silt. The same is going to start soon as a routine matter. It has been observed during the past years that the desilted material is dumped along both the sides of canal which keeps lying there along the road for weeks together making our life and living miserable as the dust and pollution fly all around making the breathing extremely difficult.
This highly unhygienic, polluted, foul and stinking desilt carries bacteria, infected germs and viruses to spread carrier infections like lunginfections diarrhoeas, typhoid, jaundice, pneumonias, dengu, swine flu and tuberculosis, etc..
It is worthwhile to mention here that there are young women in family way, newly born babies and ailing senior citizens, and the silt carrying infections may prove dangerous and cause serious health problems for them.
It may be mentioned here that few years back there was good practice of removing the silt directly loaded in the load carriers.
The initiative by the department to clean the canal is appreciable step, but dumping the dirty, polluted, unhygienic silt is not welcome by one and all.
It is quite appreciable that national green tribunalal has widened the ambit of cases in rising pollution in all the states including J & K and has directed the Civic bodies and Public authorities to put a check on air pollution caused by dust.
A proper permission from the Authority competent to grant the same is to be required by your department before dumping desilt on the roadside.
It is desirous on the department not to pollute and damage the environment by putting the extracted waste material and silt of Tawi canal on the road sides.
We are hopeful that that action may be taken in this matter.
Yours etc….
Ashok Chandra
Trikuta Nagar
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