PATNA: Even as the environmentalists world over were emphasizing upon the will of holding water resources for assembly the growing demand, more than 70% water bodies in Bihar have strangely been allowed to die an unnatural death all over the remaining 3 a long time.
There have been more than 2.50 lakh ponds in the state till the late 1980s, but the quantity has reportedly declined to not up to 90,000, informed assets said. Thousands of ponds, that are crucial to retailer rainwater all over the 8 dry months of the year, have disappeared all over the length owing to the alleged executive apathy and increasing actual property activities. Most of the ponds and lakes were encroached upon through the vested interests for building purposes, they alleged.
Using the post-monsoon satellite knowledge, scientists have known as many as 27,931 water bodies having house above zero.five hectares in the state. However, most effective 14% of them are perennial. Small water bodies are most commonly seasonal and contribute very little to the sustainable water resource building, environmentalist Mehta Nagendra Singh said.
“The distribution of water bodies varies from one district to the opposite. The perennial water bodies are maximum in Madhubani (902), followed through East Champaran (267) and Darbhanga (250). Large water bodies with house more than 1000 hectares are observed in most effective Samastipur, Vaishali and Patna districts and 60% of those are seasonal. Satellite imageries also expose that the seasonal water bodies are either utilized for agriculture or they are weed-infested after monsoon. Ten water bodies are in the vary of 500 to 1000 hectares house, with overall maximum water spread house of 7440 hectares and 50% of those are seasonal in nature,” Singh added.
In 2016, the state income and land reforms department had undertaken a undertaking to make all water bodies encroachment-free and renovate them so that they are fit for rainwater harvesting and water conservation. It had also directed the officers involved to resort circumstances towards those that have encroached upon ponds, lakes and rivers in the state. Under the water bodies' conservation undertaking, which is a part of the crisis risk relief highway map (2015-30) of the state executive, the dept used to be first supposed to identify all group water bodies in the state and then take away encroachments, if any. Finally, all water bodies have been to be renovated underneath quite a lot of schemes of the federal government and made fit to conserve water. This used to be also supposed to help in groundwater conservation, the dept assets said.
However, the ground reality hasn’t changed a lot. Hundreds of ponds have disappeared in Patna, Gaya, Darbhanga, Motihari, Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur districts in recent times and plenty of others are encroached upon, asserted Nalanda Open University pro-vice-chancellor Kriteshwar Prasad.
Even in Patna, loads of ponds have disappeared in the remaining four a long time. The Patna department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences used to be built after filling in 35 acres of lakes. Netaji Subhas Park in the southeast nook of Gandhi Maidan, Indira Gandhi Planetarium close to Kotwali, Vaishali Cinema underneath Rajendra Nagar overbridge, A-G place of business close to Sultan Palace and all the Saidpur advanced of Patna University are all sites of “useless” water bodies, Prasad said.
“There have been nearly 1,000 lakes in Patna, however their numbers have come down to a bit of over 200. Several residential localities were developed after large ponds have been crammed,” said Geological Survey of India retired director N Dayal. “Patna’s ponds, including Kachchi Talaab, Sachivalay Talaab, Manikchand Talaab and Adalatgannj Talaab may not live on for long,” he added.
There have been more than 2.50 lakh ponds in the state till the late 1980s, but the quantity has reportedly declined to not up to 90,000, informed assets said. Thousands of ponds, that are crucial to retailer rainwater all over the 8 dry months of the year, have disappeared all over the length owing to the alleged executive apathy and increasing actual property activities. Most of the ponds and lakes were encroached upon through the vested interests for building purposes, they alleged.
Using the post-monsoon satellite knowledge, scientists have known as many as 27,931 water bodies having house above zero.five hectares in the state. However, most effective 14% of them are perennial. Small water bodies are most commonly seasonal and contribute very little to the sustainable water resource building, environmentalist Mehta Nagendra Singh said.
“The distribution of water bodies varies from one district to the opposite. The perennial water bodies are maximum in Madhubani (902), followed through East Champaran (267) and Darbhanga (250). Large water bodies with house more than 1000 hectares are observed in most effective Samastipur, Vaishali and Patna districts and 60% of those are seasonal. Satellite imageries also expose that the seasonal water bodies are either utilized for agriculture or they are weed-infested after monsoon. Ten water bodies are in the vary of 500 to 1000 hectares house, with overall maximum water spread house of 7440 hectares and 50% of those are seasonal in nature,” Singh added.
In 2016, the state income and land reforms department had undertaken a undertaking to make all water bodies encroachment-free and renovate them so that they are fit for rainwater harvesting and water conservation. It had also directed the officers involved to resort circumstances towards those that have encroached upon ponds, lakes and rivers in the state. Under the water bodies' conservation undertaking, which is a part of the crisis risk relief highway map (2015-30) of the state executive, the dept used to be first supposed to identify all group water bodies in the state and then take away encroachments, if any. Finally, all water bodies have been to be renovated underneath quite a lot of schemes of the federal government and made fit to conserve water. This used to be also supposed to help in groundwater conservation, the dept assets said.
However, the ground reality hasn’t changed a lot. Hundreds of ponds have disappeared in Patna, Gaya, Darbhanga, Motihari, Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur districts in recent times and plenty of others are encroached upon, asserted Nalanda Open University pro-vice-chancellor Kriteshwar Prasad.
Even in Patna, loads of ponds have disappeared in the remaining four a long time. The Patna department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences used to be built after filling in 35 acres of lakes. Netaji Subhas Park in the southeast nook of Gandhi Maidan, Indira Gandhi Planetarium close to Kotwali, Vaishali Cinema underneath Rajendra Nagar overbridge, A-G place of business close to Sultan Palace and all the Saidpur advanced of Patna University are all sites of “useless” water bodies, Prasad said.
“There have been nearly 1,000 lakes in Patna, however their numbers have come down to a bit of over 200. Several residential localities were developed after large ponds have been crammed,” said Geological Survey of India retired director N Dayal. “Patna’s ponds, including Kachchi Talaab, Sachivalay Talaab, Manikchand Talaab and Adalatgannj Talaab may not live on for long,” he added.
70% of water bodies vanish in Bihar: Expert
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