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Durgam Cheruvu on verge of extinction
Durgam Cheruvu is being eaten piece by piece and now people are openly filling the lake with sand and selling it at high premium rates. In spite of several government committees in existence and cases in the High Court, Durgam Cheruvu if one may say is on the death bed.
Hyderabad: Durgam Cheruvu is being eaten piece by piece and now people are openly filling the lake with sand and selling it at high premium rates. In spite of several government committees in existence and cases in the High Court, Durgam Cheruvu if one may say is on the death bed.
Lubna Sarwath of Save Our Urban Lakes (SOUL) said, “Recently when I surveyed the lake, a person came up to me and said that he is plotting the land and if I were to buy now, it would come be the right time.” She further added, “What is surprising is the government is now planning to construct a cable bridge. For what and for whom? While the lake is being encroached piece by piece where is the need for a bridge? Will the common man be benefitted ion any way?”
About 60 acres of the lake had already been lost. On the south-eastern side a road had come up and if the cable bridge too is constructed, the lake which has been cut into two already will now be further divided. In 2015, the State government formed a committee with S Ramalingam as the chairman but there had been no report tabled till date. Likewise, in 2014 too the Lok Ayukta ordered an inspection in which top officials from the police as well as other departments made a visit and also signed a report about the encroachment but nothing has come of it.
In 2016, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao laid the foundation stone for a cable suspension bridge across Durgam Chervu Lake that will connect one end of Ambedkar University to Inorbit Mall.
BY Mohammed Hussain
