Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 25: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Inderjeet Khajuria President, All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association against delay in completion of artificial lake and gandola projects, Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur today directed State to file reply within two weeks.
In the PIL, it has been submitted that the State Government is making tall claims about taking all possible measures to make Jammu city a place of tourist attraction but on ground the situation is contrary.
“The Government is also boasting of constructing artificial lake and gondola in Jammu to attract tourists but both the projects are facing inordinate delays despite the fact that economy of Jammu has suffered immensely following extension of train service to Katra”, the PIL said.
“One of the major tourist attraction of all the times is sacred River Tawi but the flow of water has been decreasing owing to the pollution and increasing untreated sewage being dumped into river”, the PIL said, adding “the preservation of River Tawi becomes the moral and legal duty of every citizen of the State as well as the Government but no step is being taken in this direction”.
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