Alarmed by drowning incidents, police ask NHPC, LJHP to blow siren before releasing water

Police in this border town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district have asked the National Hydroelectric Power Company (NHPC) and Lower Jhelum Hydro Project (LJHP) authorities to blow the siren before releasing water from the reservoirs as it was leading to drowning incidents.

In a letter written to the General Manager NHPC 1st and Executive Engineer, LJHP Gantamulla by the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Uri Junaid Wali on Thursday reads, “A couple of sirens installed are not being regularly blown before the water is let out from reservoirs. In order to make the siren more effective, security guards of NHPC to be deployed near the siren or alarm lighting installation (sic).”