A Bengaluru resident, Raghavendra B Pachhapur, who works at ActionAid Affiliation, a an organization that promotes ecological justice, stood up for a dying lake within the metropolis’s Doddakallasandra space and alerted officers from native physique – the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP – to reserve it from contamination. The person went on Twitter to voice his considerations and stated he has filed six complaints thus far with no motion taken but.
“Polluted stream unstoppable @ #DoddakallasandraLake in-spite of 4 official complaints to @karnatakakspcb @Srinivas_IFS @BBMPCOMM efforts gone in useless Ought to we strategy @CPCB_OFFICIAL! @urbanvoicesin @SDGoals @Sdg13Un @WFRising @Namma_Bengaluru #ActForWater #ActForEcology,” he wrote on September 30.
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He posted a video exhibiting the lake on a geographic map and marking the realm the place a polluted stream, in accordance with him, has been getting into the lake for the final three years. The polluted stream has been getting into the lake from non-public properties beside it, the video confirmed. The sewage water has collected to the extent that it has stagnated on the lake floor, he underlined. 5 official complaints have additionally been lodged with the KSPCB – the Karnataka State Air pollution Management Board – however apparently in useless.
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The tweet, nevertheless, garnered consideration of the Doddakallasandra Lake Safety Committee, which replied, “We request the involved officers at #KSPCB to look into the matter on an pressing foundation and discover a sustainable answer for the difficulty.”
Nonetheless, after no obvious response from the board, the person went on to hunt assist from Bengaluru’s civic administrative physique – the BBMP. “Six complaints over 23 months to #BBMP. Unable to resolve the issue of a contaminated stream subsequent to #DoddakallasandraLake. #ActForWater #ActForEcology @ecology_tweets @Jahnaviravindra @shreyas_ToI @aksheevthakur @ShreyashiMukh16 @SnehaVRamesh @nkaggere @pinkychandran @cksaysso,” Pachhapur wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
Attaching one other video of the encroachment and violations, he additionally posted an inventory of complaints given to the involved authorities thus far. The video within the tweet confirmed that the complaints to BBMP have been made utilizing the Sahaya app on which the standing of the complaints have been ‘resolved’.
Pachhapur stated that the neighborhood round Doddakallasandra lake is aware about lake conservation and that they increase points as and when it occurs. “We’ve got been profitable thus far in defending water high quality underneath Class-D, for the final 10 months after rejuvenation. Nonetheless, BBMP as a custodian of lakes has the duty to guard and preserve lakes in Bengaluru,” he stated.
IAS officer Tushar Giri Nath, BBMP’s chief commissioner, informed Hindustan Occasions that the sewage circulate in Doddakallasandra is because of the incomplete development of a sewage line by the BWSSB – Bangalore Water Provide and Sewerage Board, one other native physique. “The Doddakallasandra lake is principally contaminated on account of sewage circulate, for which BWSSB is accountable. Once they end developing a sewage line within the sea, solely then the lake might be prevented from getting polluted,” he stated.
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The same social media marketing campaign in April – to save lots of the Pattandur Agrahara lake within the Whitefield space – had caught the eye of BBMP officers, who have been accused by the Residential Welfare Affiliation (RWA) of developing a street in its buffer zone. The BBMP in Could booked lake activist Sandeep Anirudhan, the president of Whitefield’s Residential Welfare Affiliation (RWA) for “spreading propaganda” and “inciting individuals” by way of social media posts.