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| Omar the CM allowed vandalization of tourist resorts | | Now illegal constructions in Gulmarg worry him | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 13: Even as health resorts of Kashmir were vandalized by influential Kashmiri families during the previous National Conference led regime, the then Chief Minister Omar Abdullah now being out of power has started raising hue and cry on illegal constructions.
Former Chief Minister today said that massive constructions were being carried out under the guise of "minor repairs" in Gulmarg tourist resort. "It's terrible to see that under the guise of minor repairs, massive constructions are being carried out in Gulmarg, authorities complicit," Omar, the working president of opposition National Conference wrote on Twitter.
The Jammu and Kashmir High court has passed several orders recently directing the authorities to take substantive action against illegal constructions in the resort area.
However, it was in the previous Omar Abdullah regime that a huge hotel was constructed in Gulmarg, whereas hundreds of prized pine trees in the forestland were massacred to facilitate the construction of the hotel in the area. The influential hotelier, who is seen as close to Omar, was even allowed to grab over hundred kanal of Government land, as extension of his hotel.
Interestingly, Omar had personally inaugurated the hotel while the battery of National Conference leaders were also present on the occasion.
Likewise, in Pahalgam, another hotelier who was close to NC, was allowed to allegedly poison pine trees where subsequently hotels were constructed in violation of Master Plan for the area. "Around 50 illegal hotels had come up in Pahalgam during the previous regime," said an official probing the issue.
The same holds true for the hills resorts of Yusmarg and Sonamarg, where hotels were illegally constructed in the forestland and in brazen violation of norms.
But now being out of power Omar has started to condemn the Master Plan violations. "Omar Abdullah has no right to condemn what his Government had mastered at," posted one of his followers.
The people said no doubts illegal constructions have scaled new heights, Omar has no right to speak on the issue because he had maintained criminal silence on the issue when he was in power.
Following the High Court orders last month, several buildings constructed illegally or in violation of the Srinagar Master Plan in and around Dal and Nigeen Lakes have been sealed.
Given the enormity of violations around these waterbodies, the High Court had directed the State Vigilance Organisation to probe the assets of officials of Lakes and Waterways Development Authority.
However, residents allege that the concerned authorities are hand-in-glove with the law violators, thus turning the Srinagar city into a "concrete jungle". |
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