Jul 12, 2021
While interacting with elected PRIs, the Joint Director was apprised by the Sarpanches that the community ponds are harvested by following proper Auctioning through Panchayat and amount realized is being utilized for the development of Panchayat besides improvement of the pond.
On the occasion, Private pond owners gave satisfactory feedback in respect to the quantity of fish harvested. One farmer namely Ashwani Trehan appraised that as per his opinion fish culture is quite profitable as it is less labour oriented.
The officers also took a fish seed stocking drive of natural water bodies like Ujh Barrage and Ranjit Sagar Reservoir which serve as livelihood for hundreds of families of local fishermen who capture fish as their sole means of livelihood.
Govt Forms District Panels, Sets Deadline For Mining Leases Through e-Auction
SRINAGAR: The government on Wednesday ordered the constitution of District Level Single Window Committee(s) for each district of Jammu and Kashmir for facilitating the execution of mining leases of e-auction for project proponents where clearance/NOC applications have not been received or are under process.
The ten-member committee is headed by the respective Deputy Commissioner and its members include Additional Deputy Commissioner (Convener), Assistant Commissioner (Revenue), Divisional Forest Officer, Executive Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Executive Engineer, Jal Shakti Department, District Mineral Officer, District Officer Pollution Control Board, Assistant Director Fisheries and Wildlife Warden.
Fisheries Department Efforts Halt Mining In Trout Streams
SRINAGAR: With the reading down of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the non-locals mining circuit has acquired riverbed mining rights for the first time. Some of the steams on which the riverbed mining rights were given were earlier protected because of the sensitive trout and other fish species.
The miners have not waited for the environmental clearances and have started mining. In most of the cases, they have used machinery in the streams, leaked official documents suggested.
Kashmir, mostly in the northern belt, has around 144 kilometres of trout fish streams where sand extraction was being discouraged for decades. Post-August 2019, however, all these streams and being mined for sand and boulders.