RCB Hand Over Two Fully Restored Lakes To Local Community

In a noble gesture, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Saturday handed over the absolutely restored Ittgalpura and Sadenahalli lakes to the native authorities, a long-term mission the IPL outfit undertook below its Go Green Initiative. From right here on, the local people will preserve the lakes for water safety and fight the danger of water disaster within the surrounding areas. “RCB’s Lake Improvement Works Project, launched in October 2023, was designed to improve the drought resistance in highly water stressed areas in Bengaluru which lack access to natural source of water and are totally dependent on groundwater and surface water,” mentioned Rajesh Menon, Vice President and Head of RCB.

For this mission, RCB entered into an implementation partnership with the India Cares Foundation and Friends of Lakes.

As a part of the almost 300-day mission, over 50,000 tons of silt and sand had been meticulously eliminated, with a lot of it repurposed by native farmers for plantation efforts.

Furthering the mission’s ecological imaginative and prescient, RCB additionally planted over 3,000 timber alongside the newly widened bunds of the lakes to assist handle flooding and add to the native biodiversity.