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Vikas Sharma. Dated: 7/21/2017 8:51:08 AM

Continuing our
weekly feature,
Talk-show, we are here with, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, (SLRM), who is
heading the Pilot Project under Solid Liquid Resource
Management (SLRM) on the trial basis in the village Chak Lala in Bishnah area.
While interacting with the Young Bites, he shared about some various aspects about this project.
Vikas Sharma
VS: Dr Zafar, tell our readers about this prestigious project?
ZI: This Pilot Project is one of the exclusive Project which has started in J&K state for the first time in Bishnah Constituency for managing the Rural household waste of the villagers of Chak Lala and make it as a Resource for revenue generation as well as employment for Panchayat, Sehora.
In this project the two color dustbin (Red and Green) were distributed to all the households of village Chak Lala for segregation of Bio-degradable and Non Bio-degradable waste. The two tri-cycles were also started for collection of the village households waste, which will be treated in SLRM Centre.
The project aims at keeping the environment clean and healthy along with generating job avenues for the local population. The project eliminates the age-old practice of dumping waste and instead it is used to generate income and save farmlands and the environment.
VS: Under which department this project has been sanctioned at Bishnah?
ZI: This project is sanctioned and running under the ministry of Rural Development Department, which as has employed a dozen local workers to collect the waste for secondary segregation. After the collection, the non biodegradable objects like plastic, bottles, paper, tin, polyethene is packed and sold in the recycling market, thus earning money for the locals working for the project.
The biodegradable products are segregated and undergo different processes by using different methods. "This helps the waste products to be reused for various activities.
The department has setup a pond to tap all the liquid waste in the pond where the non-dissolvable waste is decomposed creating feeding material for certain species of fish, ducks and frog while water sucking plants including Canna, Banana and Bamboo plants have also been planted to suck the rest of the liquid waste.