Many trees leaning precariously; bund breaches at couple of places
Mysore/Mysuru: For the first time in recent years, the iconic Kukkarahalli Lake has filled to its brim and taking into consideration the safety of morning and evening walkers, especially senior citizens and children, walking has been temporarily banned. The decision to ban walking has been taken by the authorities of University of Mysore — the Lake’s custodian.
Many trees are leaning precariously and they might fall at any moment due to loosened soil, covered with water and slush.
While the Lake bund has breached at one place from where water enters the Lake from Paduvarahalli side, the walking path too has caved-in and as a precaution, branches have been placed on the hole to alert the passers-by.
Overflowing water has entered the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre and the building has been covered by water on all sides. No activity can take place in the building unless the water level recedes.
Speaking to SOM, University Registrar Prof. R. Shivappa said that he had visited the Lake last evening along with a team of engineers and assessed the situation. “The historic bund that carries water from Paduvarahalli has been damaged due to the breach and it needs to be repaired. Also, there are many trees that are dangerously leaning towards the Lake and also the walking path. Safety is of primary concern for us and we have taken a decision to ban visitors to the Lake including morning and evening walkers,” he said.
Excess water that has entered areas outside the Lake boundaries will have to be pumped out and the water level has to recede for normalcy to be restored, the Registrar added without providing any timeline to restore public entry into the Lake premises.
Encroaching the lake area has lead to this situation
Lake is dying due to weeds.
No one is caring about this.
Also drainage water is entering into lake.
Land filling of drainage sites in and around has led to this.
The Lake was provided with a relief outlet at the Vishwamanava double road side and and the bridge at the beginning of the VM double road has been blocked as there are buildings built down stream. Now, the excess water cannot flow down stream, resulting in water level going beyond bund height.
There is nothing iconic about this lake. It was for years in 1950s and 1960s, the favourite suicide place for failed UOPM graduates.
The results of their degree exams used to be posted in the Crawford Hall, and those who failed , went to this conveniently located lake to jump to drown.
This lake took many young lives, including the bright life of my high school biology teacher’s brother.
There were a few cases, where the students reading the result sheet posted at the Crawford Hall, dejected and took their lives by drowning in this lake. Later the ever inefficient UOM , after complaints adudited the results and found a few dozen students who were declared failed actually passed, the above students who committed suicide did indeed pass.
No purpose is served by keeping this lake open. Better to fill it and convert the entire area into a botanical garden.
Thw Dodda Kere maidan-ow the place for the Dasara exhibition, was once a huge lake,. It was drained and became a maidan, when the cases of women who gave birth to babies as a result of illegal relationships tossing the newly born into the lake became unbearable. My parents and elderly relatives witnessed a full Dodda Kere lake full after monsoon rains, and read about the incidences of the above women dorwingb their new borns and and in a few cases they them selves drowned to escape the humiliation by the society.
This is a myopic view , uncalled for by dissolutioned people ,who have the audacity to say that the lake be buried., when such a beautiful was created decades ago for the very purpose of it. Gutless suisiders will always find ways to kill themselves anywhere by any means, not necessarily kukkarahalli lake.
What a disgusting suggestion.
Mann Ki Baat…Approach is very bad idea. Lake is good to have in mysore University. Need to be cleaned and maintained. MU should initiative to make it beautiful place for public walking.
Closing the lake is an atrocious opinion. Suggestions of such kind to be viewed with disdain. Persons ignorant of the natural landmarks and it’s bearing on the existence of the natural fauna and flora surrounding it, it’s contribution towards creating a calm and serene atmosphere, are not worthy of opinions.
Mann ki baat . I suggest you to not to comment in any context as you clearly portray a pessimistic personality and dangerous to environment. If you come up with all those suicidal cases it’s nowhere helpful for the planet. If the lake is well maintained by allowing the excess water to flow out of the lake through proper pipeline construction, planting more plants and trees would definitely conserve the nature.
Idiots like Raghunath < Harshitha and others are the very people who want to shut btheir eyes not noticing what is happening around their city , in terms of social problems like the suicide, dowry killing etc..
If you fools care so much about Kuakkarahalli, why don't you form a volunteer force to ensure that once this lake is cleaned-it has been done many times and filth settled soon, this lake remains clean? You would not do it. Hence, you walk away from the social miseries existing in your midst, typical Indian style.
You should be ashamed.
Mann ki baath… I really doubt your identity and am sure you are not who u are identified with here. With all your crooked gory history of students failure, dejection, leading to suicides and women in illicit relations drowning their newborns and all that you are the most twisted and contorted mind and worse is ur mind is absolutely discombobulated. Better go to a psychiatrist and find solace under a religious guru Or best is get lost in himalayas somewhere and live a solitary life until u find out ur inner positive personality. The lake is an integral part of wilderness and it doesn’t need any cleaning of debris or silt. It will automatically come to harmony with nature , thanks to its physico-chemical activities which normalizes the lake ecosystem. If we listen to u and fill the lake then u want to encroach the land and build huge tall sky scrappers and give it to ur children so that they become diwans and sit n eat for their lifetime eh?? And deprive the city of ground water ha?? Already mysore is hot like a frying pan during daytime. So have some sense when u make remarks on environmental issues.