Pipliyapala pond dried up in April itself. – Photo: amar ujala digital Expansion Pipliyahana pond of Indore, which increases the ground water level of the surrounding areas, is not maintaining its own water level properly. Is. The pond dried up in April itself, while it was full till June last year. The treatment plant which gives five lakh liters of water every day in the pond also runs at full capacity. Closed most of the time. The Green Tribunal had asked to keep the waterlogged area of ​​the pond free. Despite this, the foot wide wall built in the middle of the first pond for the court was not even broken. Went. Preparations are being made to convert it into a good pond ground. District Court building near this pond. is being made For this, the construction was started on the land of the first pond itself, but when the dignitaries and public of the city protested, a decision had to be taken to build the court building backwards. The land of the pond has been saved, but the Municipal Corporation is not taking any initiative to make it a water donation. Treatment plant found closed

Treatment plant of half MLD capacity has been built near the pond. Two pipes have been connected to this plant from the pond, which is meant to deliver five lakh liters of water, but it does not reach that much. When Amar Ujala’s team reached to know the ground reality of the plant, it was found closed and water was also not going into the pond. Seeing the team, the employee again started the plant and started saying that the plant is automatic. Manmeet Luhadia, the executive of the agency which has been operating this plant for ten years, says that the plant runs at full capacity, but there is no water in the pond. Catchment area is over Former councilor Sameer Chitnis had made a lot of efforts to preserve this pond, But after his death, the people’s representatives stopped paying attention to the pond. In the scheme of IDA-90 many plots were cut in the catchment area of ​​the pond. Due to Charlane road, the water from the other side also stopped coming into the pond. Because of this the pond now dries up quickly. Former chairman Ajay Singh Naruka says that if the treatment plant runs at full capacity, the water level of the pond remains fine. There was enough water in the pond till June last year.