Grand Mufti, Residents Oppose Gupt Ganga Waste Project

The proposed solid waste and sewage treatment project at Gupt Ganga-Foreshore Road, Nishat, is facing strong opposition from residents, with Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam, terming it “an ecological blunder that threatens Dal Lake's survival and public health”.

- Observer News Service

The Grand Mufti said that converting the Gupt Ganga wetland, an important ecological buffer for Dal Lake, into a waste processing and sewage site would have grave and irreversible environmental, health and social consequences.

"The project is ecologically disastrous and socially unacceptable,” he said. “Destroying this natural wetland for a large-scale waste facility not only undermines decades of conservation efforts but also violates the very principles of environmental protection the administration claims to uphold.”