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| Illegal structures coming up on Jhelum banks, authorities in slumber | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 24: A month after demolition drive in compliance with court orders, scores of people have again started carrying out illegal constructions and riverside encroachments on the banks of river Jhelum in Chattabal area of Srinagar city.
Sources that in open violation of High Court orders, illegal construction work is going on at full swing on the banks of river at Rampora Chattabal and other areas despite the fact that Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently stayed all the constructions on the banks of river Jhelum and its tributaries.
"Two months back the illegal sheds and structures that had come along river Jhelum from Chattabal Weir upto Cement Bride were demolished but from past week, the greedy people have against started constructing sheds and other structures illegally while the irony is that the authorities are in slumber. We brought the issue into the notice of the administration, but it didn't act," sources added.
They said that encroachments and illegal constructions have eroded the river embankment ant the process was the main cause of last year's devastating flood in the area. "Over the years, embankment of river Jhelum was eroded by the activities of people who continue to live in sheds on the banks of river. Even after floods, illegal sheds are being constructed on the embankments that too under the nose of authorities," sources added.
Meanwhile the sources informed that illegal constructions are on in full swing on the banks of the Jhelum that passes through Anantnag, Srinagar, Bandipora and Baramulla districts.
The illegal structures are also on the banks of the Jhelum in Civil Lines and old Srinagar city near Cement Bridge, Chattabal, Habbakadal, Drab Yaar and other areas, raising a question mark on the role of the authorities that how these constructions were allowed.
An official from Department of Irrigation and Flood Control said that they have already started the drive of demolishing illegal constructions across Kashmir. "This will continue in Srinagar also till the embankments are not cleared of illegal encroachments," he said.
Pertinently, the High Court had empowered all the district magistrates to demolish the constructions that are seen coming up on the river banks right from its source in Verinag in south Kashmir to Uri in north Kashmir. |
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