SRINAGAR : The Environmental Policy Group (EPG) has welcomed Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s recent call for a crackdown on encroachments along water bodies, which the administration has linked to the devastating floods witnessed in the region. At the same time, the group has urged systematic action, accountability, and urgent protection of fragile wetlands, which serve as natural flood basins and remain vital to Kashmir’s aquatic ecology. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Convenor of the EPG, Faiz Bakshi, while appreciating the Lieutenant Governor’s initiative, raised searching questions about how such large-scale encroachments were permitted in the first place. “How did these encroachments come up? Under whose supervision were they allowed to

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