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| WITHERING LEGACIES: Extinct, shrinking water bodies adding woes to Jammu's water needs | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: The fast dawning of the globalization, leading to rapid deterioration of vital components of plant, animal and human life may be the major concern for the global scientists, but what remedial or the immediate blanket steps have been mooted at different levels- it has not been specified yet.
While the reciprocating effect of the damage to nature by manmade catastrophic ventures have started yielding harrowing results, the same are seen pronouncing at various levels, degradation of elixir of life ( water being the major casualty) at the forefront.
Jammu too is not deprived of such collateral damages, the domino effect of which started years ago with plugging of many ponds and ditches in the region which today is seething under the severe climatic threat .
Hundreds of natural ponds and ditches that were once the pristine glory of Jammu in its rural as well as urban settings, today find just relevance in the ancient chapters of Jammu's history, if any or have no mention in any contemporary researches.
Neither an attempt has been mooted from any quarter to take up the issue of revisiting the 'dying heritage 'of Jammu's splendor which once upon the time used to be the only source of ewatre for quenching thirst and for all allied purposes including the cooking .
Today also hundreds of small on big ponds find their reminiscences in the Jammu region, most of which are on the edge of total extinction or are dying fast death.
Rahya and Suchani are the twin villages on Jammu- Samba highway which hold the distinction of housing nearly one dozen ponds and the essence of these ponds is that most of these ponds ar maintained by the villagers only, with no government support coming their way.
Marh, another nearby constituency of Jammu has a unique feature of natural spring water that emanates from the underground and go wasted into the Pakistan territory, with no state government claim on it .
The beneficial part of such spring water that runs into a small rivulets and vanish into Pakistan are devoid of any treaty and hence can be made useful for the irrigation purpose also, towards which no initiative has been mooted so far.
Also, the other irony is that some of the ponds which were existent within the Jammu city's confines a, today no longer are there as either they have been raised to the ground level or turned into the dumping sites.
Rani Ka Talab in the heart of the city that used to be the main source of water for the urban Jammu today is a Municipal committee park which has no great attraction for anybody except the booze mongers and other class taking to its center in the evenings and littering the park with waste and stink.
Rorian-de-chappri , another significant point near new plot area towards Janipur was a centrally attraction of Jammuites since long before it vanished into oblivion. An exciting feature of a deep and shallow water body that existed where today Jammu Civil Secretariat stands had been the stopover point for the Royale Legacy of Maharajas and their queens is now a sand and stone building. No government attention ever went this side as to why such a shallow pond was raised to ground and if any other in its lieu was dug somewhere else.
Today when the government cries over the need of preserving the water bodies and also makes paper-plans for water harvestings, never it realizes that a serious effort is required from some NGO, individual or a self-help group to take over reconstruction and revitalizing of the dead water bodies. Peoples' participation can be one important factor into it. |
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