In what could be the testimony of step-motherly treatment with two main water bodies of the Jammu region, only Rs 90 lakh were released for the conservation of Surinsar and Mansar lakes during the past three years as against whooping Rs 120 crore sanctioned for Wullar lake in the Kashmir valley. Official sources told the EXCELSIOR that while submitting Rs 386 crore project for the conservation of the Wullar lake to the Union Government, the State Government had projected demand of only Rs 6.9 crore for the protection of Surinsar and Mansar lakes of Jammu, which otherwise have been shrinking for want of adequate measures. Though for Wullar lake, 13th Finance Commission sanctioned Rs 120 crore yet for Surinsar and Mansar lakes no funds were earmarked by the Commission. However, while going through the project of Rs 6.9 crore, the Union Ministry of Environment sanctioned only Rs 3 crore, they informed. As against Rs 3 crore, the Union Environment Ministry has released only Rs 90 lakh during the past three years thereby indicating the seriousness towards conservation of two main lakes of Jammu, they regretted, adding "what to talk of Central Government, even those at the helm of affairs in State Government neither thought to prepare a comprehensive project on the pattern of Wullar lake for Surinsar and Mansar lakes nor sanctioned funds from its own coffers". Terming the meager amount for two lakes as a