SRINAGAR : The government on Thursday said that extensive dredging and desilting works have been carried out across Kashmir and Jammu to prevent floods, with major focus on the Jhelum and Tawi rivers. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Responding to a legislator’s query in the Assembly, the government, said the (IFC) Department has dredged 2.85 lakh cubic meters of material from the Sopore-Baramulla Outfall Channel over the past two years. It said that around 60,000 cubic metres of silt have also been removed from various canals across Kashmir during the current irrigation season.

Under the Flood Management Programme (Phase-I) of the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP), dredging was undertaken in the Srinagar and Baramulla reaches of River Jhelum to enhanc

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