DANISH NABI
If you fear that the once prestigious water bodies like the Dal Lake and the Jhelum might be lost forever, think again. As for most Srinagarites, the Jhelums and the Dal Lakes have been brought to their door steps, curtsy lackadaisical approach of the authorities in dewatering the areas post few inches of snowfall in Srinagar.
But this time the credit must go to the authorities because unlike Dal Lake, which could not be saved even by investing millions, they are leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that the ‘rivers flowing in every lane’ today don’t die soon. For that they make tall claims for dewatering the roads-turned-rivers but do not provide dewatering pumps; they keep the state machinery ready to deal with any kind of complicacy but not necessarily operational at the time of crisis; and they make control rooms without control.
After much hue and cry when they leave their air-conditioned rooms in luxurious cars to see if people are enjoying life under water, they inspect the affected areas; make notes and then what follows would be like stating the obvious.
Millions must have been spent on readying the state machinery but when it comes to seeing them in action, they are found wanting. But then people do not realize that this oblivion of the ‘ever ready state machinery’ can save a large part of state economy; why to spend it on dewatering when the water would dry naturally any ways. And then water logging in the areas like Hyderpora, Gulshan Nagar, Lal Bazar, Indranagar and others has been there before, people have been coming on the roads, but does it matter?
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