Governor NN Vohra on Tuesday asked the officials concerned that cleaning of Dal Lake must commence immediately but no later than July 25.
At a meeting, Vohra directed vice-chairman LAWDA to formulate a concrete proposal for the effective sewage disposal of 900 house boats, assess capacity of existing STPs against total of the existing demand and determine the number and capacity of all those who had encroached on the Lake; list all issues regarding the relocation of all those who had encroached on the lake; list all those who have been rehabilitated and have returned to the lake; prepare a list of all building/refer sanctions issued since 1-1-17 and immediately organise satellite mapping of the entire Dal Lake area, once every month.
The divisional commissioner Kashmir was directed to initiate the identification and removal of all Dal dwellers who after receiving compensation are still living in their previous habitations. He shall also prepare a list of fresh encroachments/Master Plan violations within the lake area on urgent basis.
Governor directed KB Agarwal, financial commissioner housing and urban development department to implement, on time bound basis, the SAC’s decision regarding procurement and hiring of lake cleaning machinery.
Agarwal apprised the Governor regarding the importance of construction of a Western Foreshore Road for permanent prevention of ingress and delineation of western boundary of the Lake.
Governor asked the chief secretary to very early review all issues pertaining to the preservation of Dal Lake and especially examine the economic viability of the proposal for the construction of 20,000 dwelling units at Rakh-i-Arth for Dal dwellers, to be executed by the J&K Housing Board in the PPP mode.
The meeting was held to review the ongoing Dal-Nageen Lake conservation, management and rehabilitation programmes.
Also present at the meeting were BB Vyas, advisor to Governor; BVR Subrahmanyam, chief secretary; Umang Narula, principal secretary to Governor; Navin Choudhary, principal secretary finance; Baseer Khan, divisional commissioner Kashmir; SP Pani, IGP Kashmir; AH Shah, VC LAWDA; Dr. AR Yousuf, chairman scientific advisory committee; AM Raina, VC Srinagar Development Authority and Fayaz Ahmed Khan, chief town planner.