Fwd: Arakere lake development ideas

[Arbind Gupta]

FYI, some of the ideas suggested to Arati. 

It is  now necessary to discuss these with Sumathi from BDA and have a confirmation of these ideas. It will be great if some of you could visit BDA this week. Unfortunately I am tied up with lot of work this week and can't make it.

Regards,

Arbind

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From: Arbind Gupta <arbind...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:27 PM
Subject: Arakere lake development ideas
To: HARIKUMAR ARATI - MLDL <HARIKUM...@mahindra.com>
Cc: veena hegde <veen...@rediffmail.com>

Dear Arati,

We had a meeting of the ANIT team on Sun to discuss about various development ideas and ways to go about it. The attached document gives outline of BDA's rejuvenation plan. Let me first share some of the ideas that may be considered. However, the current lake status requires changes to plan, additional cost for laying pipes carrying STP treated water from nearby apartments and also cost overrun requires cutting down few facilities (unless addressed in other ways)

1. A small children play area - It is part of original DPR from BDA adjacent to BG road at wetland pond 1. In the current state of lake, this is not feasible. It can be done much better in the space between pond 1 and pond 3.
2. A park with open space as a green belt, garden, flowers and benches for resting in the space between pond 1 and pond 3.
3. Alternatively, one can also create an amphi-theatre in place of park, as proposed above.
4. A corpus fund for conducting small environmental programs like waste mgmt, gardening, sustainable living, painting / cum drawing for children, plays / competition for children etc. This will immensely help ANIT in involving local residents, creating awareness and active community engagement.
5. Laying of water pipe for carrying STP water from apartments on north of lake (as shown in the ppt). In addition, it should also be done on south side from Meenakshi mall and Mantri Pinnacle (not proposed in the ppt).
6. Toilet facilities on NW and SW corner of lake, run and maintained by Sulabh Sauchalaya.
   

I find option 3 and 4 to be most beneficial from benefit to public and for local community. However, we are yet to discuss these suggestions with BDA who has to approve and should also be involved in design. We plan to visit them sometime this week and will keep you updated.

It will help us a lot to get your initial feedback to refine these ideas better. 

Regards,

Arbind

[Ramesh Agarwal]

My opinion has been that we should get them to do some big capex. I would even push them to fund the sewage bypass pipeline. If not 5, & 6 should be the next options. We should not even give them small options like 1-4 :-). The other way to look at it is if they are making big investments then they will want a long term benefit and for that the lake would have to be well maintained over a long period of time...so chances of getting recurring funding are also higher.

For small little things we can do other fund raising.

Ramesh

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