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Bellandur Lake Bed - Land fill activity in full swing!?
Written By silkboard - 3 May, 2011
Bangalore environment Citizen Reports Living lakes Bellandur Lake
Massive land fill operation seems to be on in the Bellandur Lake bed area. Marking the exact location on the map below.
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Its not really the lake itself, but the lake bed area on the right side of the bund/road adjoining the lake. Any chance this land fill activity could be illegal?
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srinidhi - 11 June, 2013 - 15:24
This picture was taken last week from Prestige Tech Park..looking towards Bellandur lake..
The red arrows are the walls being constructed by the encroachers after filling up the land..the blue arrow indicates the actual lake way behind..see the extent of encroachment!
Bellandur Lake satellite images, 2002 till 2012
silkboard - 7 June, 2013 - 11:05
For everyone's viewing pleasure, historical images extracted from google earth.
sanjayv - 12 June, 2013 - 03:17
First question I have is - What is the ownership history of all these land areas where soil is being filled and construction happening. How much of it is private land, how much is public land? Does anyone know?
In the CDP 2015, these areas are zoned as Industrial, High Tech etc. There is only a buffer zone around the Rajakaluves which are zoned as protected land. Did the government actually own this protected buffer? What are the laws surrounding this? Clearly, this buffer area has also been encroached all around this place.
I would think the whole low lying area should come in the flood plain of the lake... so hy is it zoned as Industrial/Hi Tech?
Does anybody know?
srinidhi - 12 June, 2013 - 06:13
The lake and its surrounding area is public property and govt does not own any part of the land nor individual owners..this is what I learnt from a post by HU..
So if that is the case, then how can govt draw up a CDP 2015 or even 2050 and eat off public land?
We have seen and suffered with their older plans of putting up huge industrial areas like Peenya, EC, EPIP etc without any proper infrastructure/connectivity and spoil everything..should they be trusted to safe guard lakes?
The are always in cohoots with the builders..petty narrow minded people..
The latest news abt lakes killed by BDA is in DH today
I would say..reclaim all and make a NYC central park kind of a place there..
silkboard - 7 June, 2013 - 10:39
Have also cleaned up mis-spelt tags etc so that all Bellandur Lake stuff is there at http://praja.in/en/tags/bellandur-lake
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