Central Planning Commission has released the first installment of Rs 4.5 crore of the Rs 15 crore plan approved by the Commission for the conservation and management of lakes of the state capital.Works regarding conservation, management and improvement of Upper lake will get a boost with the acceptance of the first installment.
For the conservation of Upper lake a meeting of Empowered Committee headed by Mayor Krishna Gaur was held on August 7. In the meeting BMC commissioner Vishesh Gadpale and Krishna Gaur presented a proposal for conservation of Upper lake before State Planning Commission which was developed under the guidance of Chief Secretary of State Government.
State Planning Commission was requested to present the working plan before the Central Planning Commission and the commission forwarded the proposal to the Planning Commission of India and was accepted. Proposal developed by the BMC included management and conservation of lakes and based on the priority for the cleaning and desilting of Upper lake dredging machine would be purchased, de-weeding machines and multipurpose desilting machines would be purchased, electric boat for constant supervision of Upper lake, implementation of land marks in the lakes, plantation in the catchment area of Upper lake, sewer line for VIP road to Gauhar Mahal, establishment of pumping station and management of catchment area by establishing Gabion structure over the nullahs in catchment area.