URGENT INTERVENTION

Administration in Kashmir valley will have intervene on urgent basis to save the green belt around Dal and Nigeen lakes otherwise the manner in which illegal constructions are going on from Khanyar chowk up to Ashai Bagh Bridge near the Nigeen Lake it would be impossible for the government to retrieve the land mass around these water bodies.

In the past 11 months police LAWDA officials and the vested interested have been working in close coordination and the results are very frightening hundreds of houses and structures have been erected in Dal and Nigeen lake areas without any government intervention.

Now the administration has woken up after hundreds of complaints by the common people about these illegal constructions. In this direction recently in order to curb encroachments and prevent illegal constructions in Nigeen and Dal Lakes, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir held a meeting of officers.

During the meeting, threadbare deliberations were held on conservation and safeguarding of Dal and Nigeen Lakes, and the measures being taken to curb illegal constructions and encroachments.

It was given out that in compliance to the High Court directions a Drone survey will be conducted to identify the encroachments and illegal constructions inside Dal and Nigeen Lake including peripheral areas of 200 meters.

The meeting was told that during the survey photography and videography of all the structures inside and around periphery of Lake up to 200 meters from the Lake fringe would be done while Lakes and Waterways Authority (LAWDA) has been asked to provide all necessary assistance in carrying out the exercise.