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| 2 court VCs to check illegal constructions in Dal Lake | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 4: The state high court has appointed two court 'vigilance commissioners' to keep a vigil on the illegal constructions within and around prohibited areas of the world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar.
"We appoint Mohammad Shafi Khan, retired District and Sessions Judge (former Principal District and Sessions Judge, Srinagar) and Abdul Hamid Bhat, former senior Superintendent of Police and Director Security Kashmir University as Court (Vigilance Commissioners," a division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice N Paul Vasathakumar and Justice Hasnain Massodi said and directed them to inspect the Dal Lake area, as for as possible on daily basis and submit weekly report to the Registrar Judicial, indicating construction activity if any undertaken within Dal Lake and prohibited area, with necessary details like identity of the violator, nature of the construction and its dimensions etc.
The Commissioners, the court said, shall also report violation of any of the directions dated 19.7.2002, and passed thereafter like transportation of building material, earth filling, release of untreated effluents by any commercial establishment into Dal Lake.
"The Registrar Judicial, on receipt of the report shall place it before the Bench having due regard to the gravity of the violation reported and urgency involved," the division bench said.
It also directed the Vice Chairman LAWDA to provide the commissioners reasonable office space within LAWDA Complex and services of at least one steno typist and orderly and also provide transport facilities like Motor Boat etc. so that they are in a position to discharge their duties with out any difficulty or impediment.
"Each Commissioners shall be paid an amount of Rs, 30,000/-per month as honorarium, by Vice Chairman LAWDA, They shall in the first instance inspect alleged violation identified in the applications in hand and submit their report," the division said further.
It passed the directions after observing that prevention of construction activity in Lake and within 200 metres from the edge of Foreshore road cannot be left exclusively to officers and the officials of LAWDA.
"The authorities ought to have swung into action on their own and submitted the action taken report (against violators). However, due to lack of commitment on part of the concerned officers, such matters are left to be brought to the court by general public. A person espousing pubic cause apprehends a retaliatory action from the violator," the division bench observed.
It also observed that the world famous Dal Lake, spreading over an area of 50 Sq Kilometers half a century back has shrunk to 13.5 Sq km.
"We have thus lost a little less than 3/4th of Dal Lake during last few decades. Significant decrease in area of Dal Lake is mainly attributable to illegal constructions and encroachments because of such construction. A large area of Lake has been eaten up by ever expanding neighbourhoods and commercial buildings like hotels, guest houses and restaurants. Lackadaisical approach on part of law enforcing agencies has emboldened land mafia, tress-passers and encroachers to undertake earth fling of peripheries of Lake resulting in further decrease in its area," the court added. |
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