Lake Development Authority_CEO 1. Lake Development Authority Bangalore Dr. Ravi Ralph IFS Chief Executive Officer 2. About the Institution and scope:Instituted as a Society in 2002Preservation and maintenance of alllakes in the metropolitan areas inKarnataka.For sake of convenience and closermonitoring lakes distributed in thecustody of various departments. 3. Progress in Lake DevelopmentThe Action plan approved by the Hon’bleHigh Court of Karnataka Committee providesfor :Survey and demarcation of the lake.Eviction of encroachment if any.Installing boundary fence.Stop the inflow of raw pollution into the lake.Strengthening the basic structures of the lake.De-silting, de-weeding, laying of embankmentsand rejuvenation of lakes 4. Accordingly following progress:BBMP - 55 lakes - 21 lakes developedBDA - 123 lakes - 12 lakes developedKFD - 5 lakes - 1 lake developedLDA - 4 lakes - 3 lakes developed 5. 16 NLCP assisted Lake Development projects.11 NLCP projects are completed.Lake prioritization list prepared according toNLCP guidelines.Technical Committee scrutinizes the DPRs beforesubmission.Collection of GPS readings for all the water bodiesin Bangalore district is in progress and GPSreadings for about 500 lakes have been collected.Digitization of lakes as per Revenue records isplanned.Basic data of all the lakes are being established. 6. ConcernsLakes in Bangalore extremely polluted. Bellandur lake 7. Biratena Agrahara lake 8. Storm water drains eitherchoked, encroached or diverted Ibbalur 9. Jaraganahalli 10. Challakere lake 11. Diverted Rajkaluve At Agara lake 12. At Madivala lake 13. Large scale encroachment of lakes Singasandra lake 14. Konappana Agrahara lake 15. Kodagi Singasandra lake 16. Kacharakanahalli lake 17. Kacharakanahalli lake 18. Kacharakanahalli lake 19. Preservation of breached lakes Malathalli lake 20. Kelaginakere Byrasandra lake 21. Conversion to dry lakes Subedaranakere lake 22. Subedaranakere lake 23. Limitations of LDADraft KLDA Bill pendingResource inaccessibility 24. Thank you