{"id":4230,"date":"2008-12-29T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:56:23","slug":"borith-people-hit-by-glaciers-movemnet-demand-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2008\/12\/29\/borith-people-hit-by-glaciers-movemnet-demand-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Borith people hit by glacier’s movemnet demand compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

by: Zulfiqar Ali Khan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The people of Borith, a small hamlet on the bank of famous Borith Lake, some 45km from Karimabad Hunza, have sought compensation from the govern-ment for the loss they suffered due to the drought which result\u00aced after the irrigation channel was damaged by the movement of a nearby glacier.<\/p>\n

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The agriculture lands in borith give a barren look due to water shortage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Due to the unusual movement in the Hussain\/Ghulkin glacier for the last couple of years, which is source of irrigation water for the village, the residents of Borith had to dig a channel every year from the glacier for irrigation. But, in May this year the glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) wash\u00aced away the irrigation channel, creating drought situation and forcing the people of the village to migrate to other pla\u00acces.<\/p>\n

Faqir Karim, a resident of Borith village, said Chief Executive of the Northern Areas Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan, during his visit to the village, had prom\u00acised allocation of funds for lay\u00acing pipelines to ensure water supply to the village. \u201cWe submitted a proposal to the Northern Areas Power and Works Department (NAPWD) for provision of Rs700,000 but despite a lapse of four months, the authority turned down our request on the pre\u00actext of shortage of funds,” he added.<\/p>\n

Amanuddin, another resident of the village, said the villagers were dependent on agriculture for livelihood but due to short\u00acage of water the villagers were unable to cultivate their land this year. He said they contacted vari\u00acous government and non-govern\u00acment organizations but their plea fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

He said each household in the village was earning more than Rs30,000 only from potato but this year they even did not have potato for household consump\u00action.<\/p>\n

Tawakal Ali, owner of a tou\u00acrist hotel in Borith village, said if funds were not allocated for water channel or pipes, the vil\u00aclagers would be unable to culti\u00acvate their fields in the coming season. This will completely de\u00acstroy the vil\u00aclage and will have a negative impact on its beauty as a tou\u00acrist spot. He said in or\u00acder to get drinking water a person nee\u00acded to work in the glacier for eight to 12 hours on daily basis.<\/p>\n

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The famous Borith Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cluster captain of the Focus Humanitarian, Shamsher Khan, said the drought condi\u00action had affected more than 110 kanals of cultivable land and 200 kanals of orchards and grasslands of about 17 households. Furthermore, 235 fruit trees and 247 forest trees had either completely or partially dried up, he added.<\/p>\n

Chairman Union Council Gojal-1 Aziz Jan appealed to the government departments and donor agencies to provide funds for the laying of pipelines for water supply from the glacier to the village.<\/p>\n

He also demanded of the re\u00acgion’s chief secretary, Babar Yaqub Fateh Mohammad, to rehabilitate and compensate the losses of the affected families. Click for orignal at DAWN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by: Zulfiqar Ali Khan The people of Borith, a small hamlet on the bank of famous Borith Lake, some 45km from Karimabad Hunza, have sought compensation from the govern-ment for the loss they suffered due to the drought which result\u00aced after the irrigation channel was damaged by the movement of a nearby glacier. Due to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[4781],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}