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| Orphanage coming up on encroached land, Minister lays foundation stone | | | Muhammad Mukaram
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 16: A senior Minister in the PDP-BJP coalition Government on Thursday laid the foundation stone for an orphanage being allegedly raised on encroached land in Srinagar.
Minister for Roads and Buildings, Gardens, Parks and Floriculture, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, laid the foundation stone of the building of J&K Al-Falah Yateem Trust at Hamdania Colony in Bemina area of Srinagar.
Sources said the orphanage Trust has raised the construction in violation of all building permission norms framed by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and the Srinagar Development Authority (SDA).
The Al-Falah Yateem Trust, an orphanage, is not registered with the Social Welfare Department (SWD). The trust is housed in a private rented building and takes care of around 40 orphans in the age group of 8 to 15 years. Apart from religious education, the Trust has enrolled these orphans in a private educational institute for regular academic education, "but they don't have Government registration," sources in the SWD said.
Director SWD, Kashmir, Hashmat Ali Yatoo said, "There is no information about this Trust in my office."
SMC Commissioner Showkat Zargar said, "I don't know whether this Trust has got permission from SMC or not. I don't have any knowledge about this. If it has violated the norms then strict action will be taken against them."
Illegal constructions continue to thrive on the encroached land, which is located in the vicinity of the SDA, local residents said.
"We fail to understand how these influential people manage to construct buildings in presence of Ministers. While on one hand locals whose houses got damaged due to last year's floods are struggling to get permission for repair works, on the other hand the influential persons have been given free hand to construct buildings," the residents said.
"It is unfortunate that all the previous regimes failed to keep a check on illegal constructions in the no-construction zones. The present Government made tall claims of cracking the whip on big sharks behind illegal constructions in the State but has miserably failed," said Adil Bashir, a social activist from Srinagar. |
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