Govt constitutes high level Committee for Waste Management in J&K

Govt constitutes high level Committee for Waste Management in J&K

Additional Chief Secretary to be chairman of committee

Press Trust Of Kashmir Srinagar Dec 22:- J&K Government on Wednesday accorded sanction to the constitution of a Committee for Centralized Single Window mechanism for planning, capacity building and monitoring of waste management in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

As per order Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary) Agriculture Production Department will be Chairman of the committee while as Administrative Secretary, Jal Shakti Department, Administrative Secretary, Housing & Urban Development Department, Administrative Secretary, Industries & Commerce Department, Administrative Secretary, Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment and Administrative Secretary, Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj will be members of the committee.

He said that terms of reference of the committee will to bridge the gaps in solid & liquid waste generation and treatment, shortening the proposed timelines, and adopting alternative/ interim measures, to formulate and execute restoration plans for all districts/cities/towns/villages in a time bound manner, to formulate the District Environment Plans through the concerned agencies with authentic and updated database for policy making and execution of projects and to review the Sewage treatment facilities adopted in terms of septic tanks/soakage/pit/FSTP in all the ULBS of UT of J&K in light of extant guidelines of MOHUA, GoI.

The other terms of reference of the committee will be to formulate a policy for prevention of untreated discharge of sewage into water bodies and recycling used water for agricultural and industrial purposes and the Committee may co-opts member(s) from any government Department/ Government Organization and invite expert(s) in the field, to participate in its deliberations.

“The Committee shall be serviced by the Housing and Urban Development Department.” Reads the order.