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Sampada Kendras turn non-starters
The implementation of one of the flagship schemes of the state government’s Sampada Kendras is too slow in spite of having enough funds to run the scheme. This is attributed to lack of dedication on the part of panchayat officers. The main hurdle in the scheme’s implementation is the failure to identify garbage dumping yards in villages.
Pithapuram: The implementation of one of the flagship schemes of the state government’s Sampada Kendras is too slow in spite of having enough funds to run the scheme. This is attributed to lack of dedication on the part of panchayat officers. The main hurdle in the scheme’s implementation is the failure to identify garbage dumping yards in villages.
District Panchayat Resources Centre officials have decided to identify a dumping yard in each village. First, it was contemplated to implement the scheme on a pilot basis in five villages of each mandal. As garbage disposal emerged as a serious problem, it was decided to have a Sampada Centre in each village. The officials have asked panchayats to allot at least 20 cents of land and a maximum of 50 cents to dispose of the garbage. In the proposed sites, sheds would be built at a cost of Rs 2 lakh to Rs 6 lakh.
Volunteers to segregate dry and wet garbage would be appointed. The sheds should be used to prepare vermicompost. Targeted number of Sampada Centres could not be set up in East Godavari district.
The Resources Centre officials say that the sale of vermicompost generates revenue to the panchayats, which are free to sell the compost. Otherwise, the centre makes an offer to sell them to the ITDAs for the panchayats. It appears that the panchayats seem to have not evinced interest in the income generating scheme.
In some mandals, sarpanches came forward to build sheds with panchayat funds. Even six months after building the sheds no activity to prepare vermicompost was reported from them.
In Pithapuram constituency, 15 panchayats have funds to build the sheds and have identified sites for the garbage disposal, but no shed was raised there.
East Godavari Deputy CEO KSN Subba Rao stated that the garbage disposal problem would disappear from villages provided they make better use of the Sampada Centers’ scheme.
As some panchayats are encountering the problem of identifying garbage disposal yard, plans are afoot to identify the yard for two or three panchayats. Once preparation of the organic fertiliser begins, the project would become a good revenue spinner for the panchayats. Plans have been drawn up for the purpose, he added.
By Saride Nageswara Rao
