Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today directed the Housing and Urban Development officials to submit recommendations within one month for choosing the best workable model for solid waste management.
The Chief Minister asked the Administrative Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Department to examine the proposals and submit recommendations within a month for selecting the best workable model, which fits within the state's available budgetary resources.
"We need to render better services in solid waste management, which is one of the basic essential services provided to the people to keep our environs clean," Sayeed said.
The Chief Minister gave the directions after a presentation on solid waste management, made by a Slovenian firm - IME-Insol, which has executed several European Union projects in Austria, Germany, Croatia and Italy.
Putting his weight firmly behind framing policies that promote cleaner and healthier environment, the Chief Minister called for pressing the accelerator on adopting best practices in tackling the ever-growing problem of solid waste management.
Placing high priority on improving J&K's rank on cleanliness indices, Sayeed said the Government has shown abundant resolve to replace the unscientific and outdated systems with a technology that can handle segregated and un-segregated solid waste better, without causing harm to environment and ecology.
"Our state needs a credible breakthrough in waste management by using best-available technology that scientifically disposes off garbage," he said.
