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Kashmir Is Burying Its Most Famous Crop Under Garbage
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Kashmir Observer
Kashmir Is Burying Its Most Famous Crop Under GarbageTwo years ago, local friends in Pampore asked me to see something for myself.
It came from the Municipal Committee of Pampore, the very body charged with enforcing India’s waste management laws.
This defies the Solid Waste Management Rules of 2016, the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules of 2016 and the Plastic Waste Management Rules of 2016, all issued under the Environment Protection Act of 1986.
It also violates the newly adopted 2026 waste rules.
Saffron built Pampore’s identity and sustained generations of families who worked this soil way before municipal waste trucks ever arrived.