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United Bengaluru members find lakes in Horamavu highly polluted

Last Updated 27 May 2017, 20:35 IST
As part of ‘Reclaim and protect our lakes’ programme of United Bengaluru, members of lake groups, elected representatives and government officials along with experts, inspected Horamavu Agara lake, Challakere lake and Horamavu Jayantinagar lake on Saturday.

They assessed the extent of deterioration, encroachment and dumping of domestic and industrial effluents in the lakes.

President, Citizens’ Action Forum, D S Rajshekar said, “During our lake visits, we found that in Horamavu Agara lake, there is a lot of illegal dumping with sewage water entering the lake in spite of many court orders. We have given a month’s time to the government authorities and elected representatives to attend to these problems. We have also filed a police complaint at Hennur police station on illegal dumping at Horamavu lake by unknown people.”

Dharna plan

Freedom fighter H S Doreswamy, who was present, said that they would visit the lakes again next month and if they find no improvement in the waterbodies, then they would sit in dharna.

The team urged citizens to file complaints against violations. They distributed pamphlets to citizens with details on existing orders, contact numbers of government officials and police stations.
 
‘Reclaim and protect our lakes’ was launched two weeks ago and last week, the team visited Puttenahalli, Allalasandra, Yelahanka and Jakkur lakes.
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(Published 27 May 2017, 20:35 IST)

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