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| Is Gulmarg Dev Authority misleading judiciary? | | Tin sheds dismantled, hotels spared | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 7: The so-called demolition drive undertaken by Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) recently has exposed the tall claims of the government as most of the illegal structures erected by influential people were spared and instead tin sheds were demolished to mislead the High Court.
Details available with Early Times reveal that many influential hoteliers like Highland Parks, Nedous, Grand Park, Raja Hut, Florence, etc have encroached upon the forest land, but they remained untouched during the demolition drive.
In addition to GDA Cable Car Corporation (CCC) which looks after Gulmarg Gandola operations has also been busy with carrying all the construction material to Kongdoori using Gandola cable car to carry the said material. Sources say that development of a park at Kongdoori had been allotted to a blue-eyed person without inviting tenders and against the High Court orders and Early Times had carried a detailed report on this issue few months back.
The CCC, by bypassing all the codal formalities, had allotted the work to one Mohammad Ashraf who owns a restaurant at Kongdoori.
It was alleged that contractor had been using Gandola to ferry the construction material like sand, cement to Kongdoori. The MD and GM of CCC, according to sources, had been fully cooperating with the contractor in the illegal work which can be authenticated from the fact that Gandola is being used to ferry construction material.
Pertinent to mention that the High Court last year banned all constructions in famous ski resort at Gulmarg and directed the state government to transfer few GDA officials for failing to check illegal activities.
A division bench comprising Justices M H Attar and Ali Mohammad Magrey directed the authorities to ensure that all construction activities in Gulmarg be stopped and vehicles carrying construction material to the resort be seized.
The court order banning construction and transportation of construction material came following reports of large scale illegal construction in the garb of minor repairs and without proper permission from the authorities.
"Deputy Commissioner as also Senior Superintendent of Police Baramulla and GDA shall forthwith enforce the above direction and ensure no construction activities is undertaken at Gulmarg till further orders from the court," reads the court order. The court order came in the wake of serious allegations made in a report which prima facie indicated grave irregularities committed in allowing the people to renovate and repair their structures. |
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