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| LAWDA acts too late to demolish illegal constructions | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 10: In an example of administrative inertia, the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority has been allowing constructions around Dal Lake and acts only when there is any hue and cry.
The LAWDA has been issuing statements that they have been demolishing illegal structures in and around Dal Lake.
"We fail to understand how the constructions are allowed. Once the construction gets completed only then LAWDA takes action," an official said.
The official said that watchers of the LAWDA are not informing concerned officials before the construction is raised. "When construction reaches to the second story then only action is taken. It should be investigated how the officials are not taking action initially when construction work is going on for a month," the official said.
The official said that there are also allegations that LAWDA was conducting selective demolition drives. "Everyone should be before law. But there are allegations that no action is taken against people who construct big houses around Dal," he added. The environment lovers also express dismay over deteriorating condition of the lake and government's "non-seriousness" in preserving it.
An environmentalist said government did nothing for preservation of the lake over the years. "The money released by the government would have filled up springs of the lake. But on ground nothing has been done because the bureaucrats and ministers are corrupt," he said.
He claimed that new constructions were coming up in and around the Dal Lake. "Floating gardens are coming up and after few years become a permanent land then constructions are being raised on it." He said the government was only keeping the lake clean from Dal Lake to SKICC.
Another official said that huge amount of untreated sewage was being flown into lake through drains on the Boulevard during power cuts or during a mechanical breakdown.
"The topography of this beautiful lake has undergone transformation over past several years, largely due to covert construction of macadamized motorable roads, and concrete pedestrian mall in the interior of the lake. This has seriously impacted its ecology and environment," he said.
He said said government needs to take various measures for preservation of Dal Lake.
Ghulam Mohammad a resident of Dal Lake said, "There is ill planning and the sad thing is that there is no accountability or if it does exist it lacked sincerity and above all LAWDA does not have expertise for saving Dal Lake," he claimed. |
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