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Brari Numbal, a hub of inland water transport in srinagar, kashmir just a few decades back is today a stinking, poisonous and menacingly ugly cesspool. Incessant flow of sewage and polythene, relentless enchroachments and blocking of its drainage points has caused the premature death of this legendry and once beautiful water body. Not long ago , shikaras and boats used to be boarded here for undertaking long sojourns, often lasting for days together, into the dal lake. Today, from this water body emanates a stench of death and neglect. Most people believe that its has been lost forever. A tragic loss indeed!.
Not to be left behind the electric department has also done its share of damage.
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Ugly greens. Masking the devastation
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Fatal remedy. This sewage treatment plant has added to the woes of brari numbal instead of salvaging it
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A view of the back waters
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Locking the lake. Shameless!!!. Not only have these vegetable growers enchroached upon the lagoon they have also ut up gates which are locked as if it is their ancestral property.
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The black waters of Brari Numbal.Pic credits: green hopes.
Concrete constructions have sprung up all around and inside the peripheries of brari numbal. Pic credits: green hopes.
The outlet of brari numbal through which house boats used to traverse has been reduced to a narrow drain. Pic credits: green hopes.
Harvesting the disaster.A large part of brari numbal has been converted into a solid land mass used for vegetable cultivation irrigated by the poisonous waters.
Pic credits: shabir mirani.
De-weeding and dredging in progress in brari numbal.Pic credits: green hopes
This salvaging effort may unfortunately have come too late to be of any real impact. Nevertheless all efforts at conservation, belated ones included are reason for hope and need to be lauded.
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The repulsive sight of brari numbal. Pic credits: green hopes.
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It is sad that things have come to this stage. The major factors for degradation of brari numbal are the filling of nallah mar and dumping of untreated sewage into it.