The announcement of a satellite township at Bemina in August last year had created a wave of anticipation across Srinagar. With a memorandum of understanding signed between the Srinagar Development Authority and NBCC, it was portrayed as the dawn of a new chapter in Kashmir’s urban story. A project worth fifteen thousand crore rupees was promised to rise over more than four hundred acres of land at Rakh e Gund Akshah with a design that combined modernity, sustainability and affordability. The people were told to expect a township with high end villas and modest apartments, commercial complexes, five-star resort, sports arenas and above all over three thousand affordable housing units. For a city long burdened by haphazard expansion and housing shortages it was no less than a dream. One yea

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