Garbage greets lakhs of pilgrims to Kangra

Our Correspondent

Kangra, March 23

The entire Kangra town remains littered with filth and municipal waste when lakhs of pilgrims come to pay obeisance at the Bajjreshwari temple.

Heaps of garbage was lying unattended on the Dharamsala Road, opposite to Govt Polytechnic College.

Pilgrims visiting Gupta Ganga and Achra Kund shrine were suffering due to the huge pile of garbage outside sabzi mandi.

Rakesh Kathuria, president, The Promoters, said, “It is painful that pilgrims who arrive in the temple town get disgusted due to poor sanitation.”

The local Municipal Committee responsible for cleanliness and sanitation of the town is in a shambles.

The garbage has not been removed for the past 15 days from the Dharamshala road.

PWD executive engineer Surender Pal Jagota said the PWD authorities removed the garbage through the JCB in trucks.

Executive Officer, Municipality, KL Thakur said it was not the duty of the municipality to remove garbage dumped by residents of panchayat areas.

He said people from panchayat areas were dumping garbage on the Dharamsala Road, thus the area was stinking. BL Sharma, a senior citizen of Jayanti Vihar, said the locality was in the centre of the town, but the government was not extending the municipal committee area, thus putting people to dock. He said panchayats had no infrastructure for removing the garbage so residents did the job of their own.