For the second consecutive day under the drive to clean the lakes of the city by BMC and supported by Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation (MPRDC), Char Imli lake was cleaned on Sunday.
Managing Director of MPRDC Vivek Agrawal, Chief Engineer Chansoria, BMC Commissioner Tejaswi Naik, Additional Commissioner BMC Sanjay Kumar were present and monitored the cleaning and deepening work of Char Imli lake on the second day.
Around 30 employees of BMC and two JCB, four trucks and 50 employees of MPRDC were employed in the work on Monday and removed grass, weed, silt in large quantity making the lake cleaner.
The lake Conservation Cell of BMC also cleaned parts of Upper lake and lower lake on Monday.Under the conservation, up gradation and beautification of the lakes of the city, cleaning work is being done on large scale.
On Sunday in a joined effort by BMC and MPRDC with the help of voluntary labour and Machines lake at Char Imli was cleaned and revived.
Managing Director of MPRDC Vivek Agrawal reached the lake and to encourage the employees and other officials helped the work with voluntary labour. Along with the removing of the unwanted from the lake and nearby areas iron frames installed at the edge of the ponds were also cleaned.
The cleaning was also done at Upper lake areas of Koh-e-Fiza, Sheetal Das ki Bagia and Prempura Ghat. The areas of lower lake which were cleaned were Fish Aquarium, Kali temple and Khatlapura areas where the water hyacinth, garbage, grass, weeds and dumped remains of Pooja offerings.