MEDIA
COVERAGE

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2025

• Bengaluru's lake care plan in limbo

• A friend in need

• Lake view: Please take citizens along

• Nonprofit quits lake maintenance after BBMP notice

• Bengaluru lakes cant be maintained only with local community support: Usha Rajagopalan

• PNLIT steps away from Puttenahalli Lake maintenance after BBMP notice

• Lake loot

• Breaking news: Rehabilitation in Bettadasanpura soon

• Puttenahalli lake 'Rehabilitation in Bettadasanapura to be completed soon"

• Breaking news: Unresolved encroachment: increase in encroachment on Puttenahalli Lake

• Puttenahalli Lake: Encroachment not cleared for a decade; revenue dept not providing compensation

• Butterfly migration this year takes flight over Garden City earlier than expected

• Sheroes of sustainability: Usha Rajagopalan's tireless fight to restore Puttenahalli Lake 

• BBMP, please renew our lake MoUs

• Bringing Bengaluru's lake back to life

• Force for Good Heroes-The Better India

• Slum grows as lake wither

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2024​​

• BBMP action plan brings new hope to ground water recharge and saving the lakes

• The what, how and why of lake restoration

• Why our lakes are in the soup

• Unified approach key to solving Bengaluru's water crises, say RWH expert

• BBMP's Kere Mitra: Bridging gaps or missing the point?

• Citizen's await BBMP's lake custody policy

• Puttenahalli Lake/ Putta Kere

• Rejuvenating Puttenahalli Lake​

• How Bengaluru's water crises is rooted in the neglect of its lakes

• Guardians of Puttakere: The community conservation story

• Example 2: The Puttenahalli Lake

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2023​

• Bengaluru's lake warriors

• "Saving Puttenahalli Lake" in The Ecological Citizen

• How has Bengaluru preserved its ponds?​

• The curious case of disappearing lakes

• BBMP's lake MoU plan will let citizens have a say

• Tap The Chatter: Which lake of Bengaluru is ideally maintain

• Lot lake love: Can citizens be allowed to do their bit?

• This festival, citizen groups are painting the town green

• When citizens take ownership of urban commons

• Will BBMP's Initiative of 'Kere and Hasiru Mitras' improve Bengaluru's green spaces?

• Bringing back lake teams officially

• The Pristine Puttenahalli Lake

• Our Puttenahalli Lake

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2022

• Commercial fish breeding in lakes worries activists

• ​How to save Bengaluru lakes gasping for breath?

• Love and Let Live: Saving Puttenahalli Lake

• Living a lake life

• Lake encroachments: Civic officials rapped for laxity

• When people stood up for Bengaluru's Puttakere lake

• ​The evolution of the Puttenahalli lake !

• MoU's for lake maintenance not renewed for two years

• Lakes of Bengaluru: Maintained by local residents, Puttenahalli is a true ‘citizen’s lake

• MOUs or no MOUs, citizen groups continue the fight to save Bengaluru’s lakes

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2021

• ​In the Life of a City Lake - Sanctuary Asia

• NGO featured in Sanctuary Asia 

• Birds, Butterflies, Fungi and a rare Spider at Puttenhalli BioBlitz​

• Rare Chrysilla volupe spiders discovered at Puttenahalli lake

• Rare spidey is a splash of colours

• The Life Aquatic

• Usha Rajagopalan: bringing a lake back to life

• ‘Sewage pits’ start appearing in Puttenahalli lake

• Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike bags award for work on lake conservation

• ​Bengaluru: BBMP recognised for restoration of 18 lakes in city

• Trusts denounce scrapping of lake conservation partnership by BBMP

• Can citizen groups maintain Bengaluru lakes? Legal tussle continues

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2020

• Restored lakes undone by poor maintenance: IISc

• Water quality is good in 18 of 45 Bengaluru lakes: Study

• Rejuvenated lakes continue to stink after restoration

• Bengalureans rescue tortoise from lake

• Revived Puttenahalli lake under threat from raw sewage

• Citizens and experts help rescue a precious Indian Star Tortoise

• Podcast: Why citizen groups alone can’t save Bengaluru’s dying lakes

• Butterflies swarm Bengaluru’s green spots

• Collapse of house highlights failure to remove slums in Puttenahalli lake

• Squatters on Puttenahalli Lake bund and activists at loggerheads

• Who should govern Bengaluru’s lakes — the government or the community? Or both?

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​2019

• Lakes, wetlands and civic interventions...

• Islands of ‘hope’ at Madiwala Lake

• ​Fair-Feather Friends

• Bengaluru: Only 12 Out Of 60 Floating Islands Remain In Puttenahalli Lake

• Sewage threatens ‘model’ Puttenahalli lake

• Bengaluru's Puttenahalli lake losing its sheen

• In Bengaluru, citizen groups lead the way in revival of lakes

• Eco India: Bengaluru is witnessing a transformation, one lake at a time

• Bengaluru lakes get renewed charm​

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2018

• Petition to save lakes submitted to Governor

• 150 fish die in Puttenahalli Lake; residents suggest aerators

• Lake groups joins hands to form federation

• This lake is family to residents

• ‘Health index will give clear picture of condition of lakes’

• These Two School Kids Have Invented An Innovative Device To Protect Bengaluru Lakes

• Puttenahalli lake’s resident caretakers to monitor water quality via monthly tests

• Puttenahalli Lake Stories

 

2017

• Puttenahalli lake to come alive with music concert

• ​Lake of concern

• When citizens turned champions for lakes

• Karnataka wants citizens to take responsibility of maintaining and protecting lakes 

• Restored Puttenahalli Lake once again draws birds

• In Puttenahalli, weeds weed themselves out

• Artificial plant islands to clean Madivala lake

• Hope remains afloat for city lakes

• Bengaluru: The floating islands that clean Agara, Madiwala lakes

• Citizens' role in saving lakes on display

• Clear and present danger: What’s the future of Bengaluru’s rejuvenated lakes

• How Bengaluru’s lakes got a second chance at life

• Wetland rejuvenation project at Puttenahalli Lake

• Nothing fishy about it!

• How Citizens Came Together To Save Bengaluru's Puttenahalli Lake

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2016

• ​Despite harsh summer, a few lakes are not feeling the heat

• Year later, Puttenahalli Lake brims with corporate support

• Birdwatcher spends her weekends by lakeside, maps avian beauties

• Can citizens salvage the fortunes of a lake?

• Floating islands cleaning Puttenahalli lake

• Bengaluru locality has come up with an innovative idea to restore the Puttenahalli Lake

• Bringing back Puttenahalli lake to life

 

2015​

• Puttenahalli lake festival

• Kere habba- kannada

• ​Green lessons, Family time at Puttenahalli Kere Habba

• In a first, KSPCB allows treated sewage into lake

• KSPCB launches project to fill up Puttenahalli lake

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2014

• ​Return of the native

• ‘Puttenahalli lake is in better shape now’

 

2013

• Birds of Puttenahalli lake

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2012​

• A tale of two lakes

• When lakes vanish, water tables dip

• Mud roads, greenery turn into real estate boomtown

• TBI Citizen Initiative: Puttenahalli Lake And Sarakki Lake In Bangalore – Infused With New Life

• Puttenahalli lake gets winged visitors' thumbs up

• ​Foreigners to resurrect Bangalore? It will be a disaster: Experts

• A lake comes back to life

• ​Fight to save lake expands to teaching slum children

• Reminiscences of old Bangalore​​

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2011

• Local resident helps rejuvenate Puttenahalli lake in Bangalore

• Make them People's lake

• A lake Revived

• A citizen initiative to save Puttenahalli Lake in JP Nagar, Bangalore

• Idol immersion without pollution

• Walking along the Green road

• Migrants enter IT city

• 50 give a leg up to save lake

• Ducking it

• All Things Considered

• Joint effort to rescue a lake

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2010

• Citizen's group helps restore Puttenahalli Lake​

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2009

• Kere in Crisis