March 29,2018:Holes in the implementation of the Swatchta Hi Sews or Swatch Bharat Abhiyan are becoming too wide to ignore here in the whole National Highway from Jammu to Srinagar, Srinagar To Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Sonamarg.... The concern department especially Jammu and Kashmir Tourism ,Rural Development Kashmir, Municipal Committee, Councils and other tourism development authorities are not paying any attention to the problem from where to the common people, tourists also pass in daily routine basis where people forcing to use open places for toilets...
When toilets should be but they don't built it's the failure of the government they spend crores over the wazwans and flop events but where need they don't spend there.
Non availability of public toilets or defunct public toilets causing much inconvenience to tourists and the people of the region . It's extremely unfortunate and a travesty of the principles of public responsibility and accountability that while these departments make high claims of development on one hand and celebrated the 'Swatch Bharat Weeks ' with much pomp, on the other hand, a problem as basic yet with such grave implications is being neglected. Despite being a world famous tourist destination, Kashmir Valley faces a severe shortage of public toilets and there is an urgent and pressing need for making the new and existing toilets functional and for building more toilets esp in national highway , so that tourists,and general public do not have to face unnecessary inconvenience and the already fragile and sensitive ecosystem of the region is not threatened further.
Mushtaq Pahalgami,
Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO
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