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| Jammu Ropeway project still a distant dream | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 15: Differences between State's Environment Impact Assessment Authority (EIAA) and J&K Cable Car Corporation have threatened the ambitious 24-crore Mubarak Mandi-Bahu fort ropeway project.
Sources said that despite directions by the government to start the work, the EIAA has not given its clearance to the project, creating hindrance in way of the project to give Jammu its first cable car.
According to sources from the corporation, the EIAA which was established in 2006 in Jammu and Kashmir to clear the environmentally fragile projects, has not given it consent to the ropeway citing that it will damage the environment around the area and will threaten the wildlife.
Sources said that officials from the Pollution Control Board (PCB) had also raised the question on the project by saying that it falls within 10-km of the Ramnagar wildlife sanctuary.
The project was to be constructed on a BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) basis, in which the state government had to provide the land and private parties had to raise the infrastructure, operate it for 30 years or so and then transfer it back to J&K.
The prestigious ropeway project has faced the delay from 1996, when it was conceived by the then Farooq Abdullah government, to boost the tourist attraction in Jammu region.
In 2005, much hype was created by the government to start the project, but it continued to face delay due to the differences between different agencies in the state.
Official sources said that with both the government bodies on loggerheads with each other over the project, the dream of Jammu to have first cable car from historic Mubarak Mandi to Bah fort will remain unfulfilled.
Officials said that the blue print for this project was first prepared in 1995 and initially the cable car was to take off from Mubarak Mandi, but after the declaration of Mubarak Mandi and Bahu Fort as heritage sites, the project had to be relocated. If seen the light of the day, this would have been a second cable car project in the state after Gulmarg.
Sources further said that another reason of lingering on of the prestigious project is the indifferent and lackadaisical approach of Jammu leaders who fail to press for its clearance.
Leaders belonging to every political party never bothered to raise the issue inside or outside the Assembly due to which the Jammuites could suffer yet another blow at the hands of Kashmiri leadership, who least care for the development of Jammu region, they added. |
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