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| Tawi awaits promotion, all musical festivals held at Dal Lake | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 15: The government of Jammu and Kashmir has been holding a mega musical festival on the banks of Dal Lake for the last around a month but the promotion of Tawi river and the construction of artificial lake here continue to be on the backburner.
Official sources said the Tourism department in league with Jammu and Kashmir Police have been holding a mega musical fountain festival on the Dal Lake on which millions are likely to be spent.
From Bollywood music to Qawalis, a variety of musical shows are being held along the fountains installed in lake in the evening hours. Interestingly, though the harsh winter has commenced early and the people avoid visiting the show due to cold, the festival continues to go on at the cost of the government exchequer.
But, while the government is spending millions in Kashmir on the alleged ill-timed festivals, which hardly have any takers, the winter capital of Jammu, where Durbar has just arrived still craves for such attractions to revive normal life in the wake of Covid19 pandemic.
Interestingly, the plan to construct artificial lake in Tawi river is yet to get completed despite missing several deadlines.
In February 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir government ordered a probe into the poor execution of the contract of the auto-mechanically operated gated barrage (AMOGB) at river Tawi, also known as the artificial Tawi lake project.
The government had cancelled GR Infra Projects Limited’’s contract for developing the artificial Tawi lake here in June last year.
As per reports, a revised detailed project report was framed, according to which Rs 51.57 crore will be required to complete the project and Rs 4.97 crore to undo the damages caused due to floods till date.
The project was kick-started in 2009 by the Congress-NC government.
It was marred by delays, missing at least six deadlines, before work came to a standstill in 2018.
The project has seen the passage of two coalition regimes -- Congress-NC and PDP-BJP -- and has drawn flak from the Jammuites.
The government had spent more than Rs 57 crore on the project in the past decade, after its foundation stone was laid by the then Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on December 5, 2009. |
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