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'Charitable Trust' status received
80G exemption received
A large flock
A Photographic Update of The Lake - 21-Oct-2010
BBMP Chief Engineer visits lake for inspection
Bird watching 10th Sep 2011
Birthday tour of the lake
Budding Thespesia
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Challenges
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Children's Day Celebrated
Cleaning up PNLIT vicinity
Clearing the lake shores of rubbish
Collection drive of re-usable items by PNLIT
Composting Workshop
Composting Workshop at Puttenahalli Lake
De-weeding by volunteers
Dirt IS Good
Donations for Puttenahalli Govt School
Efficiency in watering, Boating, Cabin in progress
Efforts for PNLIT on Spark the Rise
Ended - Collection drive of re-usabale items
EPS Recycling
Hands-on morning for school children
Idol immersion at Puttenahalli Lake
India Water Portal reps visit the lake
Innovative cleansing of the lake
Inspection of lake
Joy of Giving Week 2011
Long weekend Aug 13-14-15
Nature Walk 13th Nov 2011 announcement
Nature Walk 13th Nov 2011 comments n pics
News and Events - 2010
Our trustees help city apts save lakhs
PNLIT - walking the anti-corruption talk
PNLIT cloth bags with logo
PNLIT cloth shopping bags in the market
PNLIT on Mahindra Spark the Rise
PNLIT on Times Now "Amazing Indians" 7th/8th Jan 2012
PNLIT signs MOU with BBMP
PNLIT Stall At BM Mayflower
PNLIT wins popular vote on Spark the Rise December 2011
Purple Heron caught eating Coot
Purple Heron spotted
Puttenahalli Government School Prize Distribution June 2011
Puttenahalli Lake Walk for children of Magic Puddles
Puttenahalli Post in Citizen Matters
Saplings being planted
Traffic signal approved
Traffic signal in place
Tree planting - round 1 completed
Tree planting scheduled
TV9 Shoot
Update 31-May-2011
Update on happenings at the lake - Feb-11
Visitors to Puttenahalli Lake
Water in the lake at last!
Water tank on tyres
Weekend guided tour of lake
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Flora and Fauna
Amla
Ashy Prinia (Wren-Warbler)
Asian Koel
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Badminton Ball
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Bay-backed Shrike
Black Drongo
Black Kite
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-headed Ibis
Black-winged Stilt
Blyth's Reed Warbler
Booted Warbler
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Bronze-winged Jacana
Brown Shrike
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Butterflies
Cassia Fistula
Cattle Egret
Common Indian Toad
Common Kingfisher (Blue Kingfisher)
Common Moorhen
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Common Swallow (Barn)
Common Tailorbird
Coppersmith (Crimson-breasted) Barbet
Cotton Pygmy Goose
Date Palm
Dragonfly
Dusky Crag Martin
Eurasian (Common) Coot
Fauna to be identified
Flame of the Forest
Garganey
Glossy Ibis
Great Cormorant
Great Tit
Greater Coucal (Crow Pheasant)
Green Bee-eater
Green Sandpiper
Greenish Warbler
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
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Pheasant-tailed Jacana
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Pride Of India
Purple Heron
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Purple-rumped Sunbird
Red-rumped Swallow
Red-vented Bulbul
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Rosy Starling
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White-naped Woodpecker
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Lake Resources
Articles, Information and Reports
Barn Owl Nesting Box
Bird Profile Of Bangalore Lakes
List 1
List 2
List 3
List 4
List 5
Birds spotted at Yelahanka Lake, Nov 2012
Butterfly and Bird Plants for Puttenahalli Lake
Catchment area Puttenahalli Lake
How to revive your neighbourhood lake
Ideal plants for Puttenahalli Lake
Key recommendations of the Justice Patil Report
Lake Chain Rejuvenation - Caution
Lake maintenance equipment
Lakes Important to Urban Areas: The Bangalore Example
LAKES IN BANGALORE- The source of ground water (Ecowatch - Mar 4 2007)
Maps, lakes and citizens
My Tree Collection
Narasipura Lake planting plan
Parthenium control
Plants That Attract Birds And Butterflies
Butterfly attracting bushes
Fruit yielding bushes/ trees
Nectar yielding bushes
Nectar yielding trees
Private participation in the rejuvenation of lakes and tanks
Strengthening of lake bunds and Shady walkways
Sunbird Corner
Trees for avian bio-diversity
Weeds
Weeds can rejuvenate lakes
Wetlands Are Not Wastelands!
Lakes in the Media
Basapura Kere 1 sewage piping stopped
Help save Basapura Lake
Help us save Haralur Lake
Lakes in the Media 2011 and earlier
Lakes in the Media 2012
Lakes in the Media 2013
Media Coverage
140 lakes crying for rejuvenation
2 years at the lake
4Cs for guidance
50 give a leg up to save lake
A birthday tour of the lake
A lake comes back to life
A lake revived
A paradigm of inspiration
A tale of two lakes
A wish that came true
Abhijith Rao My run report
And the lake view's back
Apt STP water to lake trial
Arekere follows Puttenahalli example
Artificial islands to check lake pollution
Artificial plant islands to clean Madiwala Lake
Awards for Bescom Chief, TOI Journalist
Bangalore Heroes
Bangalore Lake Diaries
Bangalore Lake Diaries
Bangaloreans take online route to foster offline activities
BBMP pushing lakes for entertainment
Bengaluru lakes can be saved, prove citizens
Bird watching in the heart of human habitation
Birds at Puttenahalli Lake
Bringing a lake back to life
Capturing the lakes, dead or alive
Catch Every Drop: Puttenahalli, the People's lake
Celebrating our birthday with Puttenahalli Govt School kids
Children like the lake, so do the birds
Citizen's group helps restore Puttenahalli Lake
Citizens get new traffic signal approved
Citizens give Puttenahalli Lake a new lease of life
Connect the dots: Water matters
Contrast between two lakes
Demanding a refill
Despite heavy spending, city lakes are in poor state
Dirty lakes can be cleaned faster now
Doodle with Nature Workshop on 21st April 2012
Ducking it
Fight to save lake expands to teaching slum children
Fingers crossed over Puttenahalli rejuvenation bid
Firm pilots new tech solution to clean lake
Foreigners to resurrect Bangalore? It will be a disaster: Experts
Forget me not: Sarakki Lake cries for attention
Futehallys visit Puttenahalli Lake
Garbage should be in dustbins, not out
Good Samaritan - A writer's behind the story of a lake redeemed
Grabbing opportunities: help us with your vote!
Grand Finale of Spark the Rise
Happy Birthday Nishka
Hasiru City PNLIT Lake
Health index will give clear picture of condition of lakes
Hope remains afloat for city lakes
Hopes afloat for Bangalore lakes
Illegal houses at Puttenahalli Lake will be razed within a week: Palike
Immersion sans pollution
In a first, KSPCB allows treated sewage into lake
Interested in bird watching?
Its my news - Bannerghata
Joint effort to rescue a lake
Kere in Crisis
Lake Warriors
Lake=Life T-shirts mark the year that was
Lakes get lucky in Bangalore
Lakes wetlands and civic interventions
Larvae to help rid lake of weed
Let's save our lakes
Living Rise
Make them people's lakes
Making Puttenahalli garbage free
Media Coverage 2009-10
Media Coverage 2011
Media Coverage 2012
Media Coverage 2013
Media Coverage 2014
Media Coverage 2015
Media Coverage 2016
Media Coverage 2017
Media Coverage 2018
Media Coverage 2019
Migrants enter IT city
Mud roads, greenery turn into real estate boomtown
Namma Bengaluru Awards 2012 (CM)
Namma Bengaluru Awards 2012 (Kannada Prabha)
Namma Bengaluru Awards 2012 (TV9)
Namma Bengaluru This Week
Nano-tech is eating away lakes woes
Nature through childrens eyes
New initiatives at Puttenahalli Lake
Open Letter - Help for Puttenahalli lake
Our lake is a 'nursery'
People's Green Award - Simple Voting
Play bats for Puttenahalli Lake
PNLIT in Treetle ad
Public spaces or political spaces
Puttenahalli Lake - An Update
Puttenahalli Lake gets facelift
Puttenahalli Lake gets winged visitors' thumbs up
Puttenahalli Lake may soon be brimming again
Puttenahalli Lake model for renovation
Puttenahalli Lake needs your vote
Puttenahalli lake saviours spark the rise
Puttenahalli Lake soon to brim with treated water
Puttenahalli Lake to be revived
Puttenahalli Lake to get a facelift, finally
Puttenahalli Lake will be clean water body
Puttenahalli Post articles
Quickly log on, vote for Puttenahalli Lake today
Recklessness choking pretty Chunchaghatta lake
Reminiscences of old Bangalore
Residents partner with BBMP to save a lake
Residents to take care of Puttenahalli lake
Return of the native
Rewind Bengaluru - The year that was
Running to raise money for the lake where they train
RWAs will be roped in to maintain rejuvenated water bodies
Safai Abhiyan campaign from today
Saving a lake
Saving up rain for a dry day
Small change, big city
Spark the Rise Finale awards
The Bangalore Lake Diaries
The case of vanishing lakes
The floating islands that clean Agara, Madiwala
The Isle of JP Nagar
The return of the wings
They Lake it very much
THINKING AND INKING WITH PANACHE
This lake is family to residents
Tree planting at lakeside
TV9 at the bird watching session
Two projects to revive Puttenahalli Lake
Videos
Walking along the green road
Wanted: Water Warriors
Water and hope float in Puttenahalli Lake
Water wonderful world
Weeded out for a lake view
Weekend volunteers
When lakes vanish, water tables dip
Will this lake survive?
Young Rangers on Independence Day
Your duty towards water
‘Expedite work on three lakes’
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Adarsh Rai
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Jaba
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KamalHari Menon
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Composting workshop Jan 2011
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Lake Boundary Sept 2010
Lake Problems Aug 2010
Lake Slum Jul 2010
Mayank's pics Mar 2010
Nov-2011
Oct-Nov-Dec-2013
Water tank expt
Nirupama Sriram
Nupur Jain
Prakash Ananthapur
Pramit V Rao
Prasanna Vynatheya
Prime Jyothi
Rajiv Ratnam
Ram Manoj
Rama Neelamegam
Reshmi Chakraborty
Rosita Sequeira
Ruthvik Mandikal
S. K. Srinivas
Sanjay Mysoremutt
Shivalnge Gowda
Shubho Banerjee
Sudhir Singh
Sujesh S
Susheela Urs
Sushil Katre
Swati Chauhan
Usha Rajagopalan
Vaibhav Choudhary
Vasanth Joshi
Vish Menon
Vishaka Srinath
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