Srinagar, May 24: A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Srinagar Wing comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi, annoyed over wasting of central funds for conservation of Wular Lake.
The DB observed that it is pained to notice that the government has created the Wular Lake Conservation and Management Authority for a specific purpose but the said Authority is not able to come up to the mark, rather, it appears to have been wasting the money sanctioned and provided by the Union of India.
The DB requested Advocate General, D. C. Raina, to co-ordinate between the various departments and to place before this Court the precise stand of the respondents with regard to the conservation and preservation of Wular Lake as also regarding the utilization of money sanctioned by the Union of India for the above purpose.
