In September last year, a portion of the jogging track inside Agara Lake park collapsed. The reason were the incessant rains that had loosened the mud, exposing the BWSSB’s sewage line running underneath. Thankfully, it had not contaminated the lake water. Later, it was fixed, but temporarily. Yesterday, this portion of the track caved in again.
This is the state of civic affairs in the capital of Karnataka. Imagine what is the case across the state? On a recent lake visit by former Supreme Court justice Santosh Hegde, the BWSSB had promised to fix the issue permanently.
“The BWSSB promised that it will be done and agreed to the technical issue I had raised but nothing is done yet,” says an enraged Kavitha Reddy, one of the caretakers of Agara Lake. “Now we have to fight again to fix it. Apathy is the word for these incompetent people.”
