The Irrigation and Flood Control (IFC) Department, Kashmir, has outsourced dredging from the Jhelum and its spill channel to a private company, which is expected to begin the work later this week. The department is aiming to reach a target of dredging eight lakh cubic metres of debris from the river by the end of March. The department has so far dredged six lakh cubic metres of soil and silt from the river and its spill channel and expects to dredge further before the water level rises again, Mir Javed,…
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