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| Experts warn of disaster for Kashmir's Old City | | | early times report
Srinagar, Dec 29: The government's 'Greater Jammu and Srinagar Project' in which it had planned to save the Srinagar and Jammu cities from the wrath of the dirty water has drawn flak as the experts suggest that if implemented, the plan will drown the historic Old City within a couple of months.
Experts have raised the alarm bells regarding the 'Greater Srinagar' project and warned that it has the potential to drown the Old City.The project, sources say, costs a whooping amount of Rs 133 crore and the state government has handed over the project to the National Buildings Corporation Limited (NBCC) in 2007 and in the year 2008 NBCC started the initial work of the project.
However, sources said because of the delay in the release of the funds the project was halted for a time period and only 50 per cent of the projected has been completed so far. Sources further said the state government under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme gave a green signal for the project in 2006 and till now out of Rs 133 crores, Rs 87 crore 73 Lacs have been released so far and the project 'Greater Srinagar sewerage project' is expected to get completed by September 2013. "The projected is expected to connect the drains of over 48,220 houses in Srinagar. All of them will be connected with a single drain and the base water will be first collected by a 60MLD Sewerage Treatment Plant installed at Noorbagh Srinagar," sources said.
Sources however said that only 60 percent of work of 60MLD Sewerage Treatment Plant has been completed.The project however has worried the experts who say that the project can be catastrophe for the old city residents in the near future. |
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