The IIT Roorkee report apart, the J-K government has failed to implement its own comprehensive 256-page report that was submitted in the legislative assembly. The report had shed light on the deteriorating condition of the lake and advised how to save the water body.

The report was submitted by a 13 member house committee under the chairmanship of Sadiq Ali to the legislative Assembly in 2002. The report emphasized on the preservation of the water bodies of Kashmir. It gave recommendations on how to save these reserves of water .But till date no work on these recommendations has been done. Even this report has not been able to make its way out of the assembly, due to unknown reasons.

One of the recommendations of the report was that an expert committee needs to be appointed which will act as a watch dog for the accomplishment of the said plan of the report and will look into its proper functioning. Also the report emphasized on the point that an action plan needs to be made functional which will look into the condition of these water bodies. But till now no such committee has come into existence which would clearly and specifically work for the preservation of Dal and other water bodies except LAWDA.

In fact on the same point one of the most active NGOs of the valley, Nigeen Lake Conservation Organization (NLCO) president, Manzoor Wagnoo said “There is a authority meant for conservation of Dal, Nigeen etc which is LAWDA but when it does work properly I think a committee should be there consisting of local people. It will help in having a civil eye on the working of government bodies,”

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