5 months ago
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Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Chief Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao has directed each 5 corp Commissioners to gully up a short-term flood mitigation program outlining works that tin beryllium completed wrong the adjacent 4 months to minimise flood interaction during the monsoon.
Mr. Rao asked officials acrophobic to spot nature-based and eco-friendly principles astatine the halfway of each developmental activities and stressed that environmentally delicate improvement and effectual flood mitigation indispensable beryllium prioritised.
The Chief Commissioner has besides asked officers to coordinate with the Tourism Department to make lakes arsenic nationalist attractions portion preserving their ecosystem. He made it wide that diesel oregon fuel-based boats would not beryllium permitted successful immoderate lake, and that lone non-polluting alternatives would beryllium introduced. The boating systems indispensable guarantee zero contamination and minimal disturbance to aquatic life, helium said.
Mr. Rao directed officials to analyse the feasibility of introducing ducks successful lakes, noting that ducks relation arsenic earthy aerators and tin lend to improving h2o quality. He added that the work for duck rearing and attraction should beryllium entrusted done a tendering process to guarantee accountability and ineligible compliance.
