The submerged pump-sets were now exposed as shown in the video below. There are no official numbers on them either.Īs the days went by, the water level in the tank reduced and the first affected were the Tank pump-set farmers and the landless farmers. To add to that, there are hundreds of landless farmers, who harvest fodder for cows, from the lake bed and the surrounding areas to make ends meet. Minor irrigation, which is the custodian of the tank, has no official numbers on total land irrigated by pump-sets. By some local farmer accounts and watermen accounts, approximately 10,000 acres are irrigated by Tank and Valley pump-sets. Then there are farmers who have sunk pump-sets directly into the valley, which is again illegal. Large acreage is irrigated by farmers who have illegally sunken pump-sets directly into the tank. This is the command area, where the farmers are legally entitled to receive waters for irrigation. The tank water irrigates 5280 acres of land with a network of canals. The latest victim of this is Byramangala Tank. Nimby development is categorically applied to all lake rejuvenation projects. The government along with the support of some citizen groups and NGO’s practice Nimby development. There is an acronym as well “NIMBY” – Not In My Backyard.

Those showing Nimby reaction are called Nimbys and their state of mind Nimbyism. ‘Nimby’ is a noun meaning “a person who objects to the siting of something perceived as unpleasant or hazardous in their own neighbourhood, especially while raising no such objections to similar developments elsewhere”.

So, sewage gets diverted and garbage get thrown in someone else’s backyard. Quite understandable so: The Mosquitoes, the intolerable stench, garbage piling up along with the recklessly growing vegetation. Doesn’t this push the problem downstream to the next water body? The lake filled with sewage and other questionable effluents is a problem for residents around the lake. Diverting sewage and desilting are cornerstones of all lake rejuvenation today.

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