Bengaluru: The city’s lake should occupy 6,426 hectares and 19 guntas regions but in fact, 15% (941 hectares and 27 guntas) from it has been interrupted.
About 4% or 38 hectares and 12 guntas from violating land have been found by BBMP since the beginning of this year.
A survey, which includes 204 of 210 waterbodies, carried out in 2015-16, has determined the extent of encroachment.
Only 20 free lakes waved.
While 28 only had government encroachment, 131 was taken over by the government and private parties and six by the residents of the slums.
Nineteen is being used for other purposes.
There is not much to clean up encroachment until this year for procedural reasons, said Mother official.
According to them, the extent to which encroachment must rise now.
Special Commissioner (Lake) Shankar Reddy B said: “We have started resume the lake again.
With Tahsildar assigned by the government specifically for this purpose, the process has been accelerated.
We will set a deadline in the next 15 days.” Reddy said BBMP did not Has a new accusation count because the survey began only five months ago.
BBMP is also in talks with the income department for slum relocation and rehabilitation of certain lakes, he added.
Land was restored with efforts with the Department of Lake BBMP, police groups and citizens.
They have been fenced by the Civic body.
Mohan Krishna, Chief Engineer, Lake Department, BBMP, said they surveyed the lake to mark boundaries and see new encroachment.
“In the past five years, not much encroachment has been removed because most lakes are not transferred from BDA to BBMP.
It was mostly in 2017 and 2019 that a large number of lakes were transferred to BBMP,” he added.
Officials said several lakes were under litigation because encroachment was approaching the court.