The sprawling Wullar lake in Bandipore, J&K, has these days become a headache for thousands of people residing in its peripheral villages. Excessive snowfall this year increased its water level,

In what can be seen as a case of misuse of water bodies, the Ranbir canal in Jammu tops the chart. Initially used for irrigation purposes, today this canal is catering solely to the commercial needs

The Minister for PHE and Irrigation, Qazi Mohammad Afzal said that a comprehensive Rs 8.60 crore project has been sent to NABARD for improvement of Tawi canal in Jammu which also includes replacement

A few months back it seemed that saving the world famous Dal Lake was a 'mission impossible'. But when J&K high court donned the mantle of environmentalist, the hope came alive that Lake could be

The J&K government is shortly going to come up with a comprehensive power policy to fully augment the hydro-power potential on the pattern of successfully experiments made by the hilly states of

The J & K government would go for institutional funding or private investment in the hydroelectric power projects in case the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) fails to show interest in

Minister for Public Health Engineering, Qazi Afzal today said the Jammu and Kashmir government is contemplating to form a comprehensive irrigation policy under which ground water potential would be

It had never been a secreta that, though some parts of India receive the heaviest rainfall in the world, the country as a whole, taking into account her warm climate, suffers from a shortage of

The Minister of State for Rural Development, Ch. Gharu Ram has today reiterated the government's resolve to provide adequate irrigation potential to cultivable land in the border areas which were

With a prestigious Rs 550 crore project in the pipeline, the winter capital (Jammu) is all set for a major water augmentation programme over the scarcity of potable water. The project based on the