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DLSA Anantnag organizes legal awareness programme on solid waste management

By News Desk

April 19, 2022

In continuation of Plan of Action and activity programmes formulated by JK SLSA, District Legal Services Authority organized a legal awareness programme on Solid Waste Management on 19th of April 2022 at Town Hall Anantnag under the chairmanship of Mr. Naseer Ahmad Dar, Chairman DLSA (PDJ) Anantnag in collaboration with Municipal Council Anantnag and Education Department Anantnag.

On this occasion, Mr.Mir Wajahat Secretary of District Legal Services Authority Anantnag briefed the audience including students nominated by Chief Education Officer Anantnag and officials of the Municipal Committee and faculty members of the schools nominated as participants in the awareness programme about Solid Waste Management. The talk and deliberation touched on various contours of solid waste management including what is solid waste, what is the need to dispose of solid waste, what are the modern techniques in the disposal of solid waste and other efficacious measures that could be undertaken individually to minimize the production of solid wastes.

The speech further highlighted that every person produces one ton of solid waste every year and if the trend continues the solid waste products would be double by 2030. So there is a need to take preemptive measures at his stage before the world is taken over by the tide of solid wastes.buy zenegra online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/new/zenegra.html no prescription

In the speech it was urged to students that they can be ambassadors in their homes and areas to at least minimize the production of solid waste and aware people about the same, further they can be instrumental in disseminating the need for segregation of solid waste, to maximize recycling of the majority of solid wastes and the residue to be subjected to scientific landfilling and incineration. The speech ended by throwing challenges on the District Administration and the Chairman Municipal Council Anantnag to make endeavors in taking up the responsibility of segregation of solid wastes, collection of solid waste, scientific landfilling and procurement of scientific inclinators.

A theme was pushed that a need of collaboration between public and government to establish cleanliness of environment including solid waste management. To give impetus to the theme all the dignitaries and audience joined hands, held hands in establishing collaboration in eradication all types of pollution and management of solid wastes.

Chairman Municipal Council Mr. Hilal Ahmad Shah also spoke on the occasion and highlighted the achievements and took the firm resolution of establishment of all measures of solid waste management on scientific lines in Anantnag

Ms. Ifshama Mukhtar Lecturer from Government Higher Secondary School Furrah Anantnag being specialist in environmental science spoke on solid waste management from environmental science perspective and urged the audience to take little steps in disposal of domestic wastes in pits and turn them into productive manure. She also laid emphasis on need of implementation of solid waste management on scientific lines and pushing the implementation of solid waste management module in rural areas where open dumping is still a rule.

At the conclusion of the programme, mementos were presented to the distinguished guests and the deliberations concluded opening challenges for the administration to hold awareness about solid waste management, segregation of solid waste, collection of solid waste, classification and sifting of solid waste, recycling of solid waste, scientific land filling of non recycled solid waste and scientific modern incineration of bio medical waste, non recycled solid waste, chemical and other radioactive wastes.

The awareness programme concluded with the note that much has been done and much more needs be done in this regard and every stakeholder shall push all his means and measures to work efficiently and soar efficiently. Secretary DLSA Mr. Mir Wajahat thanked the officials of Municipal Council Anantnag and Education Department for their facilitation, cooperation and coordination and also the print and electronic media for giving wide coverage..