Urban Local Bodies workshop highlights objectives under clean India campaign

5 Dariya News

Jammu 21-Jul-2017

The Directorate of Urban Local Bodies in collaboration with Jammu Municipal Corporation today organized a workshop to intimate the Civic body officials and other stakeholders about the objectives under Swacch Bharat including the target of making cities and towns Open Defecation Free.Director Urban Local Bodies, Arun Kumar Sharma   inaugurated the workshop organized by Directorate of Urban Local Bodies, here today.The workshop was attended by Chief Executive Officers of   Municipal bodies, officials of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), Pollution Control Board, representatives of NGOs and people from diverse walks of life.Addressing the participants, Director ULB said that the Union Government has come up with comprehensive schemes for scientific disposal of solid waste, Urban Transport Management and effective and efficient drainage system within specific time frame for their implementation.

He said that prime objective of the Swachh Bharat Mission is to ensure Open Defecation Free Cities and Towns by establishing individual household toilets, community based toilets and public toilets so that the target of clean India could be achieved by October 2, 2019.Joint Commissioner, JMC, R.S. Jamwal, said  that ODF involves work on various components like Individual Household Toilets, Community Toilets, Solid Waste Management, IEC & Public Awareness and Capacity building.Scientist PCB, Anuradha Gupta, said Installation of waste-to-compost and bio-methanation plants would reduce the load of landfill sites.Two analyst of QCI, Kovidh Dhyani and Jasleen Singh Malhi made the participants  aware  about   different schemes and programmes regarding the ODF certification. They said that the programme has been designed to achieve pre- determined objectives by the end of 2019.