Mysuru’s first Botanical Garden with rare plants smells of sewage
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Mysuru’s first Botanical Garden with rare plants smells of sewage

June 21, 2023

Horticulture Department writes multiple letters to MCC, MUDA, Forest Department; relief not in sight

By M.T. Yogesh Kumar

The Mysuru city’s first Botanical Garden, which was intended to join the long list of existing natural water bodies, parks, boulevards and green canopies is in danger of turning into a neglected place. Sewage water is entering a natural pond inside the Garden and polluting the entire vicinity with a foul smell permeating the air.  

The ready-to-be-inaugurated Botanical Garden is located at the scenic Lingambudhi Lake in Srirampura II Stage, Ramakrishnanagar. The Garden is on one of the banks of Lingambudhi Lake which was built by Mummadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar in 1828 in memory of Maharani Krishna Vilasa Lingajammanni.

While the Lake has a 250-acre area, the Botanical Garden is spread over 15 acres of the total 30 acres handed over by the Forest Department. The idea of the Lingambudhi Botanical Garden was floated in 2011 along the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden and the Botanical Garden at Ooty.

The Mysuru Botanical Garden has over 350 varieties of plants and medicinal plants, dedicated to the collection, acclimatisation, conservation, multiplication and display of a wide range of indigenous and exotic plant species. Over Rs. 3 crore to Rs. 4 crore has been spent to build the Garden.

Though the actual areas from where the sewage is flowing has not yet been identified, areas like Aravindanagar, Dattagalli, Ramakrishnanagar are known to discharge waste water to the Lingambudhi Lake and one of the sewage lines might be entering the Botanical Garden pond.

Natural pond turns cesspool

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When the landscaping of the Botanical Garden was being planned and a blueprint was being prepared, the planners discovered a natural pond that was full of silt. However, in order to protect the natural environment in the Garden, the pond was cleaned and protected to retain the natural look

Engineers and landscapers rejuvenated the water body and tonnes of silt were scientifically removed and a bund was built to hold clear water. This was to invite the bird population.

Unfortunately, the present state of the pond is pathetic with gallons of sewage flowing inside every day. If a permanent solution is not found, there is a danger of this Botanical Garden — that has a huge potential to be one of the prime tourist attractions in Mysuru city — turning into a neglected place.

Multiple letters to MCC, MUDA

All the beautifying works of the Garden have been completed and is ready for inauguration with the sewage-filled pond being the only eyesore.

The Horticulture Department has written multiple letters to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and the Forest Department requesting them to block the sewage line and shift the drain to a suitable place away from the Botanical Garden. But no help is forthcoming and the Horticulture Department does not have the technical expertise to shift the drain or block the sewage entry.

Artistically designed locale

The Botanical Garden features various themed sections such as medicinal and aromatic garden, rose garden, topiary garden, butterfly garden, bamboo block, ficus block, rockeries, arboretums, fragrance block, palmatum section, minor fruit block and well-maintained water pools to attract aquatic birds.

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Lingambudhi Botanical Garden has a distinct bamboo block with 17 different species and  ficus block houses over 18 species of ficus trees with wide canopies, acting as a lung space for the lake. The Garden also boasts rare lotus varieties and a pergola providing shelter and shade along the pathway. The pergola is adorned with beautiful red jade vines that bloom twice a year.

This Garden is not in any way less standard when compared to other noted Botanical Gardens. In some aspects, it is better than the one in Ooty with a rare collection of medicinal and exotic plants. Even the public and regular visitors have urged the MCC or MUDA to divert the sewage line entering the pond.

13 COMMENTS ON THIS POST To “Mysuru’s first Botanical Garden with rare plants smells of sewage”

  1. Yogananda M R says:

    All peoples’ representatives and all leaders irrespective of party affiliations should come together to save the Lingambudhi Lake by diverting sewage.

  2. Howdy, Modi! says:

    Hello Yogananada
    Hve you been to Kashi, and have taken a look at the holy Ganga? Sewage of the whole Kashi area is diverted into this holiest river, and no serious attempt made to stop it. This is Naredra Modi’s constituency, and yet that fool not focused on it, but goes around the world ;pontificating to others.

  3. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    Wonderful. This is really India, in its glory.
    Mysore used to be a smaller city with a controlled population. Now it is a huge dump, and the sewage generated not only affects here, and also such places as Indira canteen. Hey @swamy, the dimwitted poster, just note , that this is not case in Europe as you lied.

  4. Who are the politicians who can be taken to task?

  5. Venkatesha says:

    You are right yogananda. Blaming each other will not solve problems. So far our city Mysore has got clean city award three times yet we are far lagging in maintaining the cleanliness of the city due to lack of willingness of politicians and concerned officers.Nature has given many gift to our city.It is our duty to preserve and maintain it.Our politicians are ready to give freebies for their political gains but not interested to give importance for preserving
    the nature.

  6. Mann Ki Baat, Bisi Bele Baat! says:

    Hey Venkatesha
    You are an idiot like that idiot, Yogananda, nice names you have, but you 2 have 2 very small brains, to accuse only politicians. Just walk around in your area-do you see footpaths which are free? No, they are crowded by street vendors. Look at the space near your roads. What do you see? Your people using them as open toilets-urinating and defecating. These are the problems, dimwits.
    .Idiots like you do not care for the poor for whom the freebies are directed. Have you stood and enquired a beggar, why he begs? Have you seen any poor families who are sruggling to live eating just 1 meal a day? You will not try!
    You Indians breed like sewage rats, so many of you, and where do you think that your waste products end up, if all spaces are occupied by houses? The smell any one who lans in Mysore/gets from outside the country is that of sewage.Why?

  7. Kalabeda, Kolabeda, Luncha Beda, Mosa Beda! says:

    Hello Yogananda and Venkatesha
    Mere talk will not do. Both of you start a voluntteer organisation, and start cleaning up your city , first from your neighbourhoods, so that you encourage others to join. You could invite that loudmouth @Sanjay Kini, the poster who is sitting at home and dishing advice.
    You will then discover that the problems are not with politicians or officers, but they are with yours. I do not have this problem, living in the West. Where, there is, we attend to it.

  8. Kalabeda, Kolabeda, Luncha Beda, Mosa Beda! says:

    Hello Yogananda and Venkatesha
    Mere talk will not do. Both of you start a voluntteer organisation, and start cleaning up your city , first from your neighbourhoods, so that you encourage others to join. You could invite that loudmouth @Sanjay Kini, the poster who is sitting at home and dishing advice.
    You will then discover that the problems are not with politicians or officers, but they are with yours. I do not have this problem, living in the West. Where, there is, we attend to it.

  9. Karnataka IT Techie Coolie! says:

    The early morning sights of people using even the small space at the end of a road as toilets means, human wastes are carried through every where by winds, people treading on them. This is Modi’s Tech India!

  10. Hello Venkatesha and Yogananda. Sorry! You are not idiot. I am an idiot.

  11. Mann Ki Baat, Bisi Bele Baat! says:

    Hey Mann Ki Baat, Bisi Bele Baat!

    Just look at your English here: “You are not idiot”. It is: You are not idiots”.
    It eplains your nakli user name, which you cannot sustain, by posting sentences with errors of English grammer.
    You have a very small brain, and a very few brian cells. Yes nakli ” Mann Ki Baat, Bisi Bele Baat!
    Yess, you really are the biggest idiot. Go back to school to learn English

  12. Mann Ki Baat, Bisi Bele Baat! says:

    Correction:grammar

  13. George says:

    @coolie if you don’t want to use the toilet that Modi government built because you hate Modi and defecate in public then Modi’s India can’t be blamed. A couple of days ago a drunken passenger of Air india defecated and urinated on the plane in broad public view . When they arrested he too blamed Modi because they did not want to use the toilet when the plane was taking off. I know for sure during Modi’s rule mental retardation is very much on the rise especially among Modi haters. They have lost the judgment of what is believable and what is not.

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