23/07/2025
With due respect and a heavy heart,
For the past few years in Kupwara, especially during summer, we’ve seen small circuses being set up near the Regipora Sumo Stand. But in all honesty, in today’s society, such setups are not a real necessity anymore.Especially when they lack planning, purpose, and safety.
Entertainment is important, yes.But not at the cost of our children's health and dignity.
Shockingly, just opposite the circus area, there exists an open dumping site.A place filled with unhygienic waste, unbearable smell, and serious health risks.
If permission was granted to set up a circus there, why was this basic civic detail overlooked? How can a place filled with garbage and disease-breeding waste sit beside a space meant for children's joy?
Is this what we want our children to grow up seeing?
Fun standing beside filth?
Innocence exposed to infection?
Children don’t know where not to go.They are drawn to colors, sounds, and laughter. But who will protect them from what’s hiding behind the tents.The flies, bacteria, infections, and dangers we’ve carelessly placed there?
This is not just poor planning, this is negligence.
If the dumping ground is necessary for the town, then that space should be kept away from public gatherings, especially from areas attracting children. And if a circus must be allowed, then it must be located in a clean, open, and healthy space.Not next to filth and rot.
As a citizen of Kupwara, I request the concerned authorities to take this matter seriously.
Let us not treat health and hygiene as afterthoughts.
Let us not turn blind to what we know is wrong.
The safety, health, and upbringing of our children is our collective responsibility.
With deep concern,
BILAL AHMAD WANI
A responsible citizen of Kupwara
