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States » NorthPosted at: Feb 5 2021 6:09PM


Hokersar:J&K Wildlife Protection rebuts losing 20,000 kanals of land to encroachers

Srinagar, Feb 5 (UNI) Rejecting reports, the J&K Department of Wildlife Protection on Friday said the famous wetland ‘Hokersar’ has not lost 20,000 kanals of land to encroachment.

As per the statement issued by Wildlife Warden, Wetlands Division, Kashmir, Srinagar, the department has termed the news report published in a local newspaper as wrong, devoid of facts, unverified and misleading.

The Wildlife Warden said Hokersar is not losing the status of a Ramsar Site nor has it lost 20000 kanals of land to encroachers.

He said on the contrary, Hokersar Wetland was recently demarcated by a joint team of Revenue, Forest Demarcation Division, Forest PI Division and Wildlife Department officials and the digitally demarcated and delineated Map arrived at is signed by all the stakeholder Departments.

The Wildlife Warden said by virtue of the generated map on GIS platform Hokersar Wetland comprises 13.54 Sq kms ie 1354 Ha ie 27080 Kanals of land within the demarcated peripheries. The extent of area is in consonance with the archives of forest demarcation record of the 1960's form one which substantiates today’s area figures as well.

He said however, as mentioned in the Form one of the old Demarcation record there are some chaks inside the Hokersar Wetland Reserve at the time of its notification which continues to be verified and authenticated by the revenue officials as on today.

He further said it was very recently that the Department of Wildlife Protection J&K has started the exercise of physically demarcating the peripheral limits of Hokersar Wetland by installing the Demarcation pillars at the digitally delineated points. Once this exercise is completed those found exercising any rights illegally within such demarcated limits will be evicted, the process of issuing notices in favour of such offenders has been initiated.

The statement read that further on GIS platform land use and land cover map and satellite imageries hardly show any settlements within the demarcated limits of this wetland.
UNI ABS SY 1809
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