Prasad Nagar Lake Revival - Interim Update

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We met top DDA civil and horticulture officials today to pester them for initiating the lake cleaning process. The contracting of the cleaning is still under process so that is expected to be completed in the coming week.

Brijesh Gupta ji, civil, has directed his department officials to pursue the matter aggressively and has also directed them to begin the cleaning of the lake latest by 5-7 June. Once the desilting process starts it can be completed within two weeks. Brijesh Gupta ji is well aware of the monsoon staring at us. So, even he is trying to get this process completed before rains hit Delhi.

Gupta ji is also open to look at other options where the lake could be cleaned without even removing water out of it. He has requested a detailed proposal from us with all such options available along with the costing. If any of such methods are economically feasible, they shall also be explored and most possibly implemented.

Harswaroop Singh ji, horticulture, has also offered us his support. He is confident that all the water pumped out form the lake can be utilized to irrigate the park. He is also interested in using silt as fertilizer for the park. We also told him silt could be utilized to plug the rodent holes and conical structures along with trees could be created so that any atta that's dumped near such trees can slide down.

Singh ji is also open to our suggestions of utilizing aquatic plants to keep the water clean on a long-term basis. Also, he said he has created a budget for four security guards for the park. And he is trying to get that executing soon.

On our part, we shall help the authorities not only in identifying other innovative approaches to cleaning the lake but also in creating awareness among the visitors so that they don't dump anything in the lake that contaminates the water.

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