Village hygiene

In order to keep the villages clean and hygienic, the J & K administration has been working with panchayats on different schemes.

Recently Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir emphasised upon the concern to intensify their efforts to declare all the habitations of J&K as ODF+ within this month only. He observed that the requisite funds demanded has already been put at disposal of the department so there should be no delay in meeting the deadline.

He made these remarks while speaking in a meeting to review the performance of this Swachhta Mission here in the UT.

The meeting was attended by the Commissioner Secretary, RDD; Director, Rural Sanitation besides other concerned officers of the Department.

Jammu based officers participated in the meeting through video conferencing.

He enquired from the officers about the status of door to door collection of waste in each village of the UT. He impressed upon the officers to make sure that the legacy waste is also lifted from the villages and dumped at the sites identified for this purpose in each panchayat.

He maintained that the segregation of waste should be done in each panchayat as per the requirements so that the disposal of the same becomes smooth. He told them to sensitize the people about the cleanliness of their surroundings and also penalize those found littering around undesirably at the peril of the environment.