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Srinagar, August 13: The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has issued operational guidelines for establishing designated street food cart zones across Srinagar, aiming to regulate street vending while balancing vendors livelihoods with food safety, sanitation, pedestrian convenience and orderly use of public spaces. The initiative, being implemented under SMC Commissioner Fazlul Haseeb, will initially cover identified locations including Opposite JKTDC Water Sports, Dalgate Bund, Badamwari, J

Jammu, Aug 12 : The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday issued a fresh set of guidelines to streamline the processing of forest rights claims while simultaneously cracking down on unauthorised occupation of forest land, officials said. The circular, issued by the Forest, Ecology and Environment Department, reiterates that all actions concerning forest land must strictly comply with the Indian Forest Act, 1927, and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition