Click to play videoBangalore: Building a new ring road that would ease the traffic on Bangalore's busy roads sounds like a good plan. But the planned peripheral road could dry up a water body that supplies water to the city.
To construct the road, the Development Authority has acquired land near the Tippagondanahalli reservoir catchment, a vital water source for the city.
Construction within one kilometre of this ecologically sensitive area means a reduced water inflow which would result in a water shortage for the citizens of Bangalore.
Housewife, C Puttamma says, "As it is we don't get water properly, and with summer just around the corner, we would not know what to do if this project results in a shortage of water supply."
The land around the catchment area has been notified as agricultural land that cannot be used for other purposes, but the state Pollution Control Board which monitors this has been sidelined by the Civic Authorities.
Chairman, Karnataka Pollution Control Board, Sharath Chandra says, "It's the PWD which decides or if it's a Planning Authority then they need permission of the Local Planning Authorities."
The Bangalore Devlopment Authority and water board are not commenting on the issue, and while work on the peripheral ring road is yet to start, it's the city's private water suppliers who are eagerly awaiting the same.
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