J-K administration asks Srinagar residents to start kitchen garden for essentials

The Srinagar Municipal Corporation has asked its residents to grow vegetables and fruits in open spaces around their houses to address the issue of lack of essentials during "emergency situations" like the ongoing lockdown.

Residents of Srinagar city, which is densely populated, often face difficulty in getting essentials like vegetables and fruits due to curfew and prolonged strikes.

The city also has to face difficulties when the Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only all-weather road linking the valley to rest of the country, gets closed due to snowfall or landslides.

"To address the issue, it shall be mandatory for all citizens/families (in Srinagar), that possess detached/semi-detached plots, should use the open areas around the house/ building for kitchen garden and plantation of fruit trees as it is right time for vegetable farming and planting trees," said a public notice issued by SMC Joint Commissioner Planning Ghulam Hassan Mir.

According to the notice issued on Saturday, all ...