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| 'Rs 46 cr dredging project can't prevent flood in Valley' | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 1: With the government having sanctioned Rs 46 crore, dredging project of Jhelum to a Kolkata based company to prevent floods in future, the top official of the Irrigation and flood control department Kashmir here on Friday said that without proper flood management, the dredging will not prevent valley from the floods.
The government has sanctioned Rs 46 crore dredging project to a Kolkata based company.
"Even when the dredging process would be completed, it wouldn't rule out flooding of Srinagar city in case of heavy rains lasting for several days. For the proper flood management, the department has already submitted a proposal of Rs 2000 crores to Centre to create an alternate flood spill channel from south Kashmir to Wular lake in north Kashmir - bypassing the Srinagar city," Chief engineer Flood Control Kashmir told Early Times over phone.
He said the company has been awarded Rs 46-crore project after completion of requisite formalities.
The Chief Engineer informed that out of the contract amount, the company will have to pay Rs 12 crore to the State Government as revenue generated from sale of dredged-out river bed material.
Originating from Verinag in South Kashmir, Jhelum spans over 175 sq.kms from south to north Kashmir. It is joined by four streams, Sundran, Brang, Arapath and Lidder in Anantnag district. Besides, small streams like Veshara and Rambiara also feed the river with fresh waters. The river settles in Wullar lake before flowing to Pakistan administered Kashmir through Baramulla district.
Jhelum has a capacity of 35,000 cusecs and the flood spill channel of the river has a capacity of between 12,000 and 15,000 cusecs. On September 7, 2014 nearly one lakh cusecs of water entered Srinagar city.
Incessant rains in September last year led to abrupt rise in water levels of Jhelum- submerging habitations on both sides of its embankments. The water level in Jhelum broke all records crossing 33-feet at Sangam in Anantnag and 23-feet at Ram Munshibagh.
The Government of India in November last year cleared Rs 399-crore flood management plan for Jhelum to increase carrying capacity of the river and its flood spill channel. The project also envisaged acquisition of land at Shariefabad on city outskirts to make the existing flood spill channel fully functional. "This dredging project is part of the comprehensive flood management plan," he said but added that this huge dredging project would help to increase only five to 10 percent carrying capacity of Jhelum and its flood spill channel. "If we have to prevent floods in future then we need proper flood management system," he said. The project named 'Comprehensive flood management programme' is undertaken by Kolkata based 'Reach Dredging Limited'. The official said that while the dredging of river from Srinagar to Wular Lake would be completed within a year, the de-siltation of the flood channel from Srinagar to Panzinara village in north Kashmir would take close to two years. |
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