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| DCM for intensification of Dal maintenance measures | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Oct 20: DEPUTY Chief Minister, Tara Chand today along with a team of senior officers inspected development works of Dal Lake.
He was accompanied by Commissioner/Secretary Housing & Urban Development, Suresh Kumar, Director Local Bodies, Kashmir Khawaja Farooq Renzu Shah, Vice Chairman LAWDA, Irfan Shah and other senior officers and engineers of Housing and concerned departments.
During the inspection, Tara Chand was informed that due to unrest the employees and workers engaged in the maintenance of Dal Lake were not able to perform their duties, resulting in mushroom growth of ajola and weed, which is dangerous for the Lake.
Exhorting upon the officers to speed up pace of Dal development works, the Deputy Chief Minister directed for augmenting the work force and machinery to make up the loss. He personally checked the working sheets and operational books of harvesters engaged in dweeding operation.
Vice-Chairman LAWDA gave a resume of various works undertaken for protection of world famous water body. He informed that since April this year as much as 80,000 cubic meters de-weeding, 12000 cubic meters dredging and 40,000 square meters lilly/Radhs extraction has been carried out.
Inspecting civil works undertaken around Dal, Tara Chand said that the work on prestigious parapet wall has been started after a span of 40 years to further enhance glamour and landscaping around the famous Dal Lake. He directed the concerned engineers to immediately repair the wall wherever it has been damaged and stressed on undertaking immediate repairs of viewpoints.
The wall is extended around the Lake from SKICC to Nishat Garden and from Ishber area to Naseem Bagh.
The Deputy Chief Minister advised LAWDA authorities to install illumination points on the entire road along Dal to further enhance its charm and unique ambience.
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