Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 8: As the Sonamarg Development Authority (SDA) submitted the satellite imagery before the High Court, the Division Bench today made it clear that anyone seeking construction of a hotel has to demonstrate his land falls under the earmarked satellite imagery.
The status report filed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), SDA on the directions of the court contains three maps reflecting Geo-referenced Sonamarg Land Use Plan 2005-25, Land used actual on ground as interpreted from the Satellite Imagery Sonamarg Master Plan, 2005-25 and Land used actual on ground as interpreted from the Satellite Imagery Sonamarg Master Plan, 2005-25.
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These maps clearly indicate areas which have been earmarked for hotel sites cum hotels in a colour coding and as per the map, one is adjacent to the SDA which the court categorized as “A”, another site on the curve of the Sindh River which has been classified as category “B”, another site running horizontal to the said site across the road has been categorized as “C” and another site on the second curve of the River Sindh near the Bus Terminal has been categorized as “D”.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Moksha Kazmi after having thorough consideration of the Satellite Imagery recorded that any applicant seeking construction of a hotel has to obviously demonstrate that their land falls under any of these four earmarked categories of sites.
The Satellite Imagery of Sonamarg demonstrates the various constructions/facilities already existing on the Tourist Resort by identifying each and every such construction and the court had sought for the same in order to enable it to examine that these constructions/land use are within the permissible limit as mentioned in the Master Plan.
The processing of Satellite Imagery was prepared in coordination with the Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal Regional Director, Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing Department, J&K and Chief Town Planner, Town Planning Organization, Kashmir.
Court directed that as and when any application is made before the BOCA for seeking permission to construct or make repairs which falls within any of these categories of land, this Court will examine if any other additional conditions are required to be fulfilled either in terms of various orders passed by this Court in this regard or any other legal requirements.
The DB for this asked the Amicus Curiae to assist the Court by furnishing those additional requirements apart from the normal conditions required under the BOCA Act.
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