‘Kere Connect Habba’ to create awareness among citizens

 Aiming to make local residents, students responsible for protecting water bodies

‘Kere Connect Habba’ to create awareness among citizens

Kere Manjunath ಕೆರೆ ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್

Bengaluru: ‘Kere Connect Habba- 2025’ has been launched with the aim of making citizens and children aware of the lakes in the city and informing the locals about the responsibility of the communities in their protection.

‘Kere Connect Habba’ aims to make citizens aware of the importance of lakes in the city, and to provide solutions to local residents to face water security, flood problems and other challenges.

Rapid urbanization has reduced sustainable living with water resources. ‘Kere Connect Habba’ is being celebrated to recreate such a connection. Experts will provide information about biodiversity through this festival. Residents around the respective lakes, associations involved in lake protection, and school children will be brought together and their roles in water protection will be explained.

The ‘Kere Connect Habba’ is being organized by the India Care Foundation in several lakes of the city, along with Friends of Lake, along with many corporate and local organizations. The organizers said that permission has been obtained from the BBMP to celebrate the festival in the lakes.

Permission: Permission has been granted to ‘Kere Connect Habba’ in several lakes of the city to create awareness among the people and to prevent damage to the lake environment. Separate permission is being obtained for celebrating the festival in each lake, said Vijayakumar Haridas, Chief Engineer, Lakes Department, BBMP.

Ganga-Kaveri Aarti for a lake without water flow!

The Srigandhada  Kaval Lake of  near Magadi Road was developed by the BBMP two years ago at a cost of ₹22.4 crore. However, today there is not even a drop of water in this lake. Ganga-Kaveri Aarti is organized in such a lake during the ‘Kere Connect Habba’.

The Srigandhada  Kaval Lake has been developed by the BBMP under the ‘Shubhra Bengaluru’ project and the previous canal route has been changed. Water does not come from the existing inflow. Therefore, despite good rainfall for the last two years, this lake is not filled with even a couple of feet of water.

The Srigandhada  Kaval Lake, which has been constructed unscientifically, is like a ‘hi-tech park’, and the lake has lost its existence due to the lack of inflow.

‘Let the feeling of calling the lake theirs come’

‘The residents around the lake do not even know that the Srigandhada  Kaval Lake is here. Even the children of the schools in the vicinity are not aware of the lake. Therefore, the locals and children should feel that the lake is theirs. They should take responsibility to protect it and keep it clean. Therefore, the ‘Kere Connect Habba’ has been organized on Saturday, March 15 at Srigandhada  Kaval Lake. Various programs have been organized from 7 am to night. We will perform aarti so that water comes to the lake and fills it up even in the next rainy season. ‘Usiru and Team Spotlight organizations will manage the program,’ said Shobha Bhat of Usiru.

Festival at Kaval Lake in Srigandha (Saturday, March 15)

• Lake biodiversity walk
• Children's painting competition
• Stage program
• Information and discussion from experts
• Food from the garden workshop
• Rural games
• Cultural program
• Deepotsava, Ganga-Kaveri Aarti
• Collection of old clothes, old shoes
• Free bag stitching offer if you bring old clothes
• Exhibition stalls on sustainability awareness