STATE GOVT REFUSED HALCROWS PLAN IN 2007, WHEN FLOOD CONTROL DEPARTMENT SEEK ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN CONSULTANT IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY THE CATCHMENT AREAS OF JEHLIUM, IT WAS REVEALED THAT AREAS ARE ALL OCCUPIED BY RESIDENTIAL HOUSINGS, GOVT .QUARTERS ETC. EXPERTS OF GELOGIST HAD SAID THAT IN COMING YEARS JEHLIUM WILL HAVE BIG FLOOD AND EVEN THE REGION OF KASHMIR, BECAUSE ALL RIVERS HAVE ITS NATURAL PROCESS TO HAVE FLOOD AFTER EVERY 65 YEARS. JEHLIUM HAD FLOOD SAME WHAT WE HAVE TODAY BUT THAT TIME FLOOD OCCUPIED PLACE OF CHNAPORA, NATIPORA, BEMINA AND OTHER CATCHMENT AREAS OF JEHLIUM. IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR STATE GOVT TO REMOVE ALL RESIDENTIAL QUATERS BUT HALCROW TOLD WE WILL ACCOMMODATE FLOOD OF JEHLIUM BY MAKING OPEN CHANNELS AND MODERN TECHNIQUES FOR THAT HALCROW DEMADS MONEY WHICH WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR STATE AND CENTRAL GOVTS TO PAY. SO STATE GOVT PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE OF THIS AND THEY CHOOSE BEAUTIFICATION OF JEHLIUM, WHIC EVEN AUTHORTIES CONSIDER FAILED PROJECT PROJECT. JEHLIUM BEAUTIFICATION IS JUST TO INCREASE THE DEPTH OF JEHLIUM SO THAT MORE WATER CAN BE ACCOMMODATED. BEFORE BEAUTIFICATION BUCKET HAS CAPACITY OF LITERS AND AFTER BEUTIFICATION THY MAKE LITERS. BUT THEY KNOW WE ARE DOING FAILED JOB. GREATER KASHMIR greaterkashmir/news/2010/Feb/12/srinagar-awaits-catastrophe-57.asp
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