Jammu,
28/11/2017: Concerned over the unchecked and elevating level of pollution in
the river Tawi, a plea has been submitted by the Save My Tawi campaign with the
government seeking caution boards on all the bridges of river Tawi with
prohibitory note educating the people not to throw garbage in the river.
The
Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell has further marked this prayer (no. 76588)
seeking installation of these cautionary boards to the Jammu Municipal
corporation on 13th of this month and have asked the JMC to redress
the grievance within 15 days. Though the petition was submitted with the
grievance cell on 12/Nov/2017 and as per the new Standard operating procedure
of JK grievance Cell, it should have
been disposed of within 15 days .
On
behalf of Save my Tawi campaign the petition has been filed by one of its founding member Raman Sharma. In
his plea the appellant have urged the authorities to install the caution boards on either sides of
all the bridges on river Tawi including Bikram Chowk to Jewel, Sher I Kashmir
Bridge joining the river with Bahu Fort to Gujjar Nagar, Bhagwati Nagar Bridge
and Sidhra site bridge over the river
Tawi. People parking their vehicles over these bridges and then throwing
polythene carrying bags and other thrash in Tawi is common site in Jammu city.
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| Early Times, 29/Nov/2017 |
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