BMC starts desiltation work at Upper Lake
   Date :03-May-2019

 
Staff Reporter:
 
The desilting work of Upper Lake commenced the other day. Bhopal Municipal Corporation’s squad started the work to deepen Upper Lake from Bhadbhada area by using heavy machines such as two poclain machine, two JCB machine, etc. On the first day, 78 trip silt was taken out. BMC Commissioner Vijay Dutta took stock of desilting work of Upper Lake.
 
He directed to immediately transport the excavated mud immediately. The excavated mud of upper lake is being dumped in nurseries of BMC situated in Char Imli area and Kilol Park. In the second phase, work to dig mud from the barren land of Upper Lake would be done at Khanugaon and Bairagarh immersion site. Last year also, BMC had conducted same kind of exercise to make upper lake deeper so that its water holding capacity gets increased. BMC has appealed general public to co-operate it in the noble cause of saving the Upper Lake.