We spend huge money on our weddings, but when it comes to waste, that is thrown in rivers, streams or on roadside by people in Kashmir? Last week my friend from Harwan Srinagar sent me a video of a huge trash thrown on the Srinagar-Harwan road. This was waste from a wedding feast, probably from a nearby area. The organisers of the event didn’t even bother to hand over this trash to the sanitation staff of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), who collect waste from the area in small vehicles every morning. 

I immediately uploaded the video on social media and requested the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and local police to identify the culprits so they could be booked under the law. But even after almost eight days or more no action has been taken? This is not the case of Harwan area alone but I have been witnessing this wedding waste dumping around public places for the last many years. In villages the waste is dumped in forest areas, village common land (kahcharai) or waterbodies like streams, canals or small lakes.

Jhelum and Dal, dumping site for wedding waste In Srinagar and other towns many families carry the waste to be thrown into Jhelum, Dal Lake, or around roadsides? In fact, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) provides a service to carry this waste but people are adamant about dumping waste unscientifically and unethically. Ironically, people sensitive about this also make the mistake of not segregating the waste after the........

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