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| Shops, houses being raised on 'encroached' land of Dal, Nigeen lakes | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 2: The Lakes & Water Ways Development Authority (LAWWDA) continues to be a mute spectator as the land of Dal and Nigeen lakes is being encroached at several places in Saidakadal area of Srinagar.
Official sources alleged that makeshift tin fencing had come up at almost a dozen places on Saidakadal-Hazratbal road for the last one month and people were making illegal constructions inside the fencing which 'happens to be the land of Nigeen and Dal lakes'.
Near Saidakadal bridge, vegetables had been grown on a large chunk of the allegedly encroached Dal lake land. Locals claimed that the matter was brought to the notice of LAWWDA vice-chairman, but no action was taken. Pertinent to mention here that LAWWDA had spent more than 500 cr on various development works around Dal lake in the last five years. Despite the spending of such a huge amount of money, the lakes authority has failed to clear several channels and illegal encroachments from the vicinity of Dal lake.
A few months back, an important water channel entering Dal lake at Malpora near Jogi Lankar Rainawari was chocked due to the heaps of garbage which are dumped in it by the locals and safai karamcharies associated with Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). LAWWDA, according to locals, was least bothered to clear this 1 km channel which connects Malpora with Chowdhary Bagh.
"The channel is filled with plastic bottles , polythene and other kinds of non bio-degradable waste. This trash is filled into the water body for the last more than a decade even as locals have the facility of door-to-door collection of garbage. Also, its scientific disposal is hardly undertaken by the Srinagar Mcipal Corporation (SMC) or LAWWDA. I am sure more than 200 truck-loads of trash would be inside this 1 km long channel. We are now fed up with the fake assurances of authorities and I along with my friends are mobilizing locals to undertake the cleaning of this channel on their own," said Abdul Majid Mattoo of Rainawari.
Swatch Bharat Mission might be changing the lives of people in other cities and towns of country, but for the Dal lake dwellers, this countrywide mega sanitation campaign has hardly made any impact as heaps of garbage continue to be dumped inside the lake rather than making its scientific disposal.
"There is no mechanism to collect the garbage from various localities inside Dal lake and people are forced to throw all the polythene and other waste material inside the lake . Had authorities developed a mechanism to undertake door to door collection of garbage with proper segregation , things would have been entirely different today and Malpora channel would not have been chocked, " said Ghulam Nabi of Malpora.
Since the valley unrest that began in July last, illegal constructions are alleged to be going on in full swing in the areas surrounding Dal lake.
"If authorities can take action against the protestors, why cannot be similar action taken against these people who are leaving no stone unturned to encroach the Dal lake?" said Fayaz Ahmad of Jogilankar Rainawari. |
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