Srinagar, July 22 -- Srinagar, often celebrated as the "Venice of the East" and a jewel of Kashmir, is a city of breathtaking beauty, with its serene lakes, majestic mountains, and vibrant cultural heritage. It is one of the cities taken up for urban placemaking under smart city mission project and is pompously claimed to be one of the best practice city of SCM. However, beneath this picturesque facade and dystopian planning and development interventions lies a growing environmental and public health crisis, marring the city's sensory landscape that is the Syedpora Achan dumping site. This landfill, the sole garbage disposal site for Srinagar's about 2.0 million residents, has transformed from a once-pristine wetland into a sprawling, uns...