Properties develop cracks in Srinagar’s Rainawari resulting from land subsidence
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“A minimum of six residential buildings in Srinagar’s Rainawari locality have developed cracks and suffered harm resulting from suspected land subsidence, prompting the administration to vacate the houses and kind an knowledgeable committee to determine the main points and counsel remedial measures,” officers stated on June 26.
“Some houses within the Khwajapora Surteng space of Rainawari began to develop cracks on June 17, that turned wider over the following few days,” the officers stated. The locals imagine the houses started to develop cracks after some parts of the land started to sink.
“The cracks widened with every passing day. We approached the administration, which requested us to vacate the homes,” native resident Manzoor Ahmed stated. The state of affairs has sparked panic among the many locals.
“Deputy Commissioner (Srinagar) Bilal Mohi-Ud-Din Bhat, who can be chairman of the District Catastrophe Administration Authority, has fashioned an knowledgeable committee to determine the main points and counsel remedial measures,” the officers stated.
“The nine-member committee is headed by Further Deputy Commissioner (Srinagar) Syed Ahmad Kataria and consists of Ghulam Jeelani, a professor of Earth Sciences on the College of Kashmir,” they stated.
“The committee has been requested to submit its findings inside every week and counsel measures for stopping environmental harm, protecting different allied and incidental problems with land subsidence within the space,” they added.
The world was hit by land subsidence in 1999-2000, after which a case research was performed by a crew of specialists led by Bikram Singh Bali from the Division of Earth Sciences on the College of Kashmir.
The research used floor penetrating radar and located that the floor change phenomena was resulting from intensive underground mining associated to the pottery trade, which had a hundred-year historical past within the space at the moment.
It stated the realm witnessed land subsidence for the previous a number of a long time and, within the course of, most constructions suffered intensive harm.
“Main sub-surface observations made have been underground cavities, room and pillar mining constructions and voids. Along with the sub-surface constructions attributable to the mining within the historic previous, the floor deformations have been noticed within the type of cracks developed within the development,” the research had stated.
Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed land subsidence incidents within the latest previous as effectively. In April, 74 households have been compelled to depart their houses in Pernote village of Ramban district resulting from land sinking.
Two months earlier than that, greater than a dozen residential buildings and a mosque within the Garsu village of Doda district developed cracks. In July 2023, cracks have been seen on the riverside street in Batengo of Anantnag district.
In April of that yr, cracks have been noticed on the Tingshore hill within the Halmatpora space of Kupwara. The cracks, which broken a number of tin sheds, have been adopted by land subsidence, elevating fears of a hill collapse.
“The reason for the land subsidence might be pure components akin to groundwater dissolution and earthquakes, in addition to human actions akin to groundwater extraction, mining and concrete improvement, which result in compaction and subsidence of the bottom,” specialists say.
