Yele Mallappa Shetty Lake — Attraction in Karnataka

Yele Mallappa Shetty lake (YMSL) being one of the major lakes of Bengaluru city covering a large watershed spread over in an area of 287 km 2 needs urgent conservational efforts. Especially in the background of severe shortage water for domestic purposes in city. Ecological assessment of this iconic lake was carried out by studying the physico-chemical, topographical, and biological parameters. The results were analysed using specific standards. They clearly showed that there is high risk of contamination in this lake which is mainly because of domestic sewage and effluents released from industries. YMSL has shown sever depletion in aquatic flora. The number of plant species found to be very low. The lake was dominated by only a few species, which is highly disturbing. Despite of the fact the Government is announcing projects and schemes to rejuvenate the lakes the number of lakes is decreasing. Some of them are fast disappearing. All existing lakes need urgent attention and especially YMSL should be rejuvenated. Conservation strategies of the lakes are also discussed and presented...

One of the biggest lakes in Bangalore. A major problem with this lake is the lack of development in terms of cleaning, walking space around the lake. Though the lake has very good potential to become a tourist spot. Concerned authorities to step in and act swiftly also inflow of water needs to be filtered keeping in mind that the lake supports a vast amount of...

One of the large and beautiful lakes around the KR Puram region.

Authorities should mark boundaries and fences so in future there will be no encroachment from big builders like Prestige in future.

Needa maintenance.

Excessive water flows to the kalkere lake. Such a great thought by our kings and makers...