WULAR CONSERVATION

Wular conservation projects are already in place but like the preservation projects for the conservation of water bodies in Kashmir this project is going very slow in pace.

Frequent disruption in life followed by clampdowns and lockdowns had its impact on the overall help of Wular Lake which is Asia’s biggest freshwater lake available.

The challenges not only the human interference but the huge land mass created by the social forest department within the lake. They have made huge willow miseries within the lake and the irony of the situation can be gauged from the fact that the Wular conservation project is being run by the forest department.

Wular Lake has been under threat like other water bodies of Kashmir in the past several decades. Creating the landmass on the territory of the lake with the blessing of local leaders has created dozens of illegal localities all along the boundaries of this lake.

In order to save this biggest lung available for the Jhelum surrey during the floods, the government will have to act tough against the violators. In this connection all the illegal constructions in and outside the lake should be demolished and the rubble of those demolished should be removed from this water body and the cost of such exercise should be borne by the violators.

Unless the government will take stern measures to preserve this huge lake in north western Kashmir, it would be more and more difficult even to think of bringing back its glory in the coming year.