Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 7: Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has sought response from J&K Government especially the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) Department, Deputy Commissioner Budgam and Government Medical College Srinagar in response to a petition filed by Jammu & Kashmir RTI Movement regarding pollution of Doodh Ganga Nallah in central Kashmir’s Budgam distirct.
In a petition filed by J&K RTI Movement to SHRC, it was alleged that hundreds of lavatories go into the Doodh Ganga nallah in Chadoora area of Budgam district and PHE supplies same water from its water filtration plant located around Srinagar outskirts.
“Clean water and sanitation is one of the important constituents of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is a 15 year agenda (2015-2030) adopted by UN in 2015. Clean Water and Sanitation figuring at serial 6 of SDG stresses on water, sanitation and hygiene also called WASH. Access to safe water and sanitation are human rights, as recognized in 2010 by the UN General Assembly,” Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat Chairman of RTI Movement said
“Today as we claim to have become much developed and educated, my head bows down in shame when I see fecal matter, the solid and liquid waste finding its way into Doodh Ganga. The worst part of it is that this polluted water continues to be lifted at Doodh Ganga water treatment / filtration plant located at Kralpora in the outskirts of Srinagar. The said water is supplied to a huge population in Srinagar and some parts of Budgam,” he added.
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