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| Illegal construction along Kashmir Canal, department mum | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Oct 22: Amid callousness attitude of Irrigation and Flood control Department, the illegal construction along Kashmir canal is going unabated.
The illegal construction is rampantly going on, but concerned Departments have deliberately turned a Nelson' eye, due to reasons best known to them. The encroachment was made on both Kashmir Kanal and Basantpur kanal not by ordinary residents of the Lkhanpur it is made by the high profile people of the Lakhanpur.
It is fatal violation and it is challenge to the rule of law and made the mockery of Irrigation and PHE department. The encroachment on Kashmir canal and Basantpur kanal have been used for the construction of large number of houses and even their outlets are being drawn into the both canal where as the municipal committee Lakhanpur also seemed helpless to counter the violation by taking any legal action against the illegal outlets.
Ex- Chairman's of municipal committee himself turned as encroacher and raised cemented structure on the bank of Kashmir Canal and Most of area of Kashmir canal has been encroached by politically influential families of Lakhanpur besides office bearers of Municipal Committee Lakhanpur, a local seeking anonymity said.
He further maintained that the encroachers were hand in glove with Irrigation department officials, due to which large portion of Kashmir Canal and Basantpur Canal has been encroached and still encroachment was on. He further maintained that it was the general modus operandi of encroachers. "Without involvement of officials, no one can encroach even a single feet of government land but it is known fact that vast tracts of irrigation land has been encroached and rhetoric of irrigation officials has been same since last many years", he rued.
Reports said that despite repeated complaints made to both the district administration, irrigation department as well as the Lakhanpur Municipal Corporation, no action was ever taken against the encroachers.
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