The beautiful lake in Ulsoor is a boon for residents around.
The beautiful lake in Ulsoor is a boon for residents around. This natural advantage coupled with efforts to refurbish its image has elevated the place from the 16th best locality last year to 12th this year in the DNA-AZ survey 2010 on the most liveable areas in Bangalore.
Ravi Kumar, a retired professor, is all praise for his locality. “I cannot think any other place to live in. One reason is the ample space it provides for morning and evening walkers around the lovely lake although traffic gets nastier as the day advances,” says he.
It was because of the lake he moved to Ulsoor 12 years back. “As years passed, my affinity with the lake grew,” says the professor who is in his early sixties.
There are many like Ravi who are in love with the lake and take it as a privilege to be living near it. But there is a growing school of thought that the lake is fast losing its charm due to neglect and misuse. Most parts of the lake are not maintained well.
The most ‘stinking’ issue confronting the lake is water pollution. From a beautiful lake, it has become a huge dumping yard of waste. Visitors indiscriminately throw waste into the lake. Ulsoor’s corporator Udhay Kumar admits that the lake is not properly maintained.
But he is committed to change its look. “My ward is divided into two sections, the upper middle class section and middle and lower middle class people. Each section has own problems and needs but what is common for both is the love and determination to rejuvenate the water body,” says Kumar.
“There are sewage water lines which also lead into the lake. Of course, there are sewage water treatment plants placed at the two entry points from where the sewage water flows into the lake. But these plants have not been working for years. Thus, all the waste from other parts of the city gets accumulated in the water body,” adds he.
Although the roads are maintained well in the area, frequent change in traffic movement nullifies this advantage. Ever since the metro work started, the people of the area are facing a big problem. However, some welcome changes have taken place in recent times.
“The Gurudwara Road, which was in a bad condition, has been repaired. The last stretch of Old Madras Road used to get flooded during rains. It has been repaired and the stretch now looks good,” says Anthony Swamy, a resident.
Despite many advantages, Ulsoor still lacks a good park and playground. There were plans to make a park in the premises of Ulsoor Lake but nothing has materialised so far. Much remains to be done to this great locality, say residents, adding amenities are far from satisfactory.
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