Bengaluru: Clean-up drive at Kembathalli Lake

Bengaluru: Nonprofit Urban Wings Foundation organised a clean-up drive at Kembathalli Lake, off Bannerghatta Road, on Sunday morning.

Members of the NGO, along with residents of the Arya Hamsa Apartment Owners’ Cooperative Society, collected nearly 50 large garbage bags filled predominantly with plastic waste, as well as paper, chocolate wrappers, diapers and other discarded materials, a news release stated.

Civic officials, including sanitation workers, assisted in transporting the collected waste in a municipal garbage vehicle.

In a letter to the local MLA and the chief engineer of the civic body, the organisers called for revival measures for the lake, sustained restoration efforts and long-term ecological protection.

Former local corporator K Somashekar visited the site to express support for the initiative and discussed plans for the lake’s revival, the release added.