‘Dear Modi uncle, save our lakes’: 1000 Bengaluru school kids send post cards asking Narendra Modi to intervene

"Clean air, clean water and clean environment is our right. We need our Varthur Lake and Bengaluru city for our future", 1000 kids of KK School wrote in their post cards.

Published: August 12, 2016 12:10 PM IST

By India.com News Desk

'Dear Modi uncle, save our lakes': 1000 Bengaluru school kids send post cards asking Narendra Modi to intervene

August 12: While the adults are busy playing Pokemon Go and boasting about what all fictional creatures they’ve ‘caught’, the kids are obviously worried about lesser important things like the environment, and poisonous lakes, etc. You know, the stuff that one need not do anything about, until it starts stinking in their backyard. Nonetheless, children of Bengaluru are waking up to the adverse impacts of excessive pollution and are speaking up in one voice, demanding from the central government to intervene and take steps to save their lakes. In a heartening gesture, city kids are flooding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post box with post cards, drawing his attention towards the imminent crisis that the city faces.

The kids are all students of KK school in Varthur area. They wrote their complaints and concerns about the health of the city’s environment, especially its lakes, on postcards addressed to the Prime Minister’s Office and posted these on Thursday. Over 1000 kids participated in the activity, after seeing their lakes facing the brunt of pollution and the inactivity of the city’s Municipal authorities, even in the face of crisis. Numerous localities, including Varthur, in the city have lakes which have either been polluted to their limit, or have been encroached upon in the last few years. ALSO READ: Bengaluru: Thousands of dead fish wash ashore on highly polluted Ulsoor Lake! (Watch video)

According to a report in the News Minute, here’s what the kids wrote in their postcards.

“Dear Modi Uncle,

Clean air, clean water and clean environment is our right.

We need our Varthur Lake and Bengaluru city for our future. Protect our lakes and rivers from pollution and encroachments.

Please intervene and save them.”

The report says that the students have conducted several studies on Varthur Lake in collaboration with IISc scientists. It is pertinent to mention here that the lake has received quite a lot of media attention in recent times for poisonous foam that has been seen atop it and that has caused several health problems to the residents around it. However, very little has been done in the way of mitigating this crisis. Speaking to News Minute, the principal said, “In August, the Lake Preservation and Encroachment Committee, of which IISc scientist T V Ramachandra is also member, visited Varthur Lake. We are not experts, but based on the studies, several students and I recommended them to take up scientific methods like dredging or de-silting.”

Khan added, “However, we got to know that some vested interests in the committee has recommended dry-desilting which is unscientific. If it failed, land mafias can easily take up the land.” The report also says that less tha  1 per cent of the city is covered with lakes and over 54% of them have been encroached upon by the civic authorities, for buildings and residential projects.

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